I was about 33 and it was apiece of junk. Basically more like a typewriter with memory. No internet back then.
I was about 33 and it was apiece of junk. Basically more like a typewriter with memory. No internet back then.
I owned a house before a PC.
I was about 8, maybe 10. Macintosh classic, black and white monitor.
It had internet capabilities but we didn't have internet either. I think we had a 14kbps modem but never used it.
First computer with internet had a 200mhz intel processor, 56kbps modem. Maybe even a cable modem.
Timex Sinclair 1000, 1982, $99.95. I was 11.
That computer and my interest in it put me onto a path that has been very lucrative for me.
Me too. I was in my second home when I got one.
Pretty young, maybe 8 or 9. Commodore 64. It was pretty much a gaming console for me.
22 yrs old or so. Got a 386dx40. 30 Meg Seagate HDD. 5 1/4 and 3.5 in floppy drives. I still use the Focus 5001 keyboard.
Somewhere between 10 and 12.
I remember that one. Wanted it bad Also the Altair 8800 back in 75, maybe. I was in high school in 1979 when the Z8 microprocessor came out. My dad was an engineer and designed his own computer with me as the tech. I wirewrapped the motherboard and our first interface and way of 'programming' it was with a console of switches and LEDs for output. That set me on my career path which was very lucrative for me. A little while later I wire wrapped an interface for a hex keypad (omg what an improvement over the switches) and also a very crude video card for a crappy b/w monitor and cassette tape interface. Internet? Hahaha! I think that thing is still buried somewhere in my Dad's garage. It was all him in the design. Smart guy.
About 13, an Apple Macintosh SE. I only cared about the games and they sucked compared to IBM compatible computers.
Tandy TRS 80 in 1980... I was 33.
24. Gateway desktop. Dial up of course 👍🏻
We got a Commodore Vic 20 when I was about 12.
I learned their basic programming, made some programs and then it ran out of memory. Adding memory was tough. Then I didn’t do much after that.
But on my own, I didn’t have a computer and dial up internet until I was 29.
Freshman year of college
It had Windows 95 on it, so about 30 years old.
18, freshman year of college. My big sister built me one. It was a huge heavy tower. That monitor took up my entire desk and weighed a ton. Moving in and out of the dorms every year was not fun.
We bought one in 1996 when I was in my early 30s. That didn't make us early adopters but not everyone had one then, and within 5 years virtually everyone we knew had one or more.
We had internet over the phone line and couldn't make a call when we were on it. I remember watching a football game where showed a URL on the screen, and I wrote it down. Later on when I was online, I was thinking, where the he!! is that piece of paper, and found it and carefully typed in www.nfl.com.
18 as a freshman in college in 1999. No internet in dorm rooms back then.
that's funny-we got a Vic 20 in about '82-my brother and I did pretty rudimentary games and programming-yeah to save any work due to limited memory, we used to use an attached cassette tape recorder! Arcades were still the place to go for games then unless you had a friend with an Atari or a Colecovision!
I bought an ibm 32 not sure if that qualifies as a pc