Personally I cheated, my mom couldn't find Daycare for me, between her active hippie life, so she let me get babysat by the computer science department at Humbolt State university. I was entering code into Punchcards when I was in Kindergarden.




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I worked with Commodore-64s when I was a small child. (How many of y'all remember those???) When I was just entering my teens, I was assembling IBM PCs (I'm talking the original 8088s,) and PC-XTs for sale.THe Yosemite Bear wrote:No Poll, just input, Were you monking around with the ones at the early university, do we have one of the original AT&T operators that was drafted into Cypher works back in WWII, does some one remember hacking vacume tubes and rewiring boards. Does anyone remember typing lines into punch cards, big reels of magnetic tape, Early BBSing, the Wargames boom, the start of Webs, Trash-80's. What was around when you started messing around with computers.
Personally I cheated, my mom couldn't find Daycare for me, between her active hippie life, so she let me get babysat by the computer science department at Humbolt State university. I was entering code into Punchcards when I was in Kindergarden. :evil: :twisted: :twisted: :evil:
Yeah, the same for me too. The crappiness scared me of Apple.Dalton wrote:My first computer experience was Oregon Trail on the old Apple ][e.
Had a C64 when I was about 7 and a 286 {16mhz and 6meg of RAM} when I was 14 but only really started to learn how to assemble and use them properly in the last 3 years. Now I have three computers, two of which work.THe Yosemite Bear wrote:No Poll, just input, Were you monking around with the ones at the early university, do we have one of the original AT&T operators that was drafted into Cypher works back in WWII, does some one remember hacking vacume tubes and rewiring boards. Does anyone remember typing lines into punch cards, big reels of magnetic tape, Early BBSing, the Wargames boom, the start of Webs, Trash-80's. What was around when you started messing around with computers.
Personally I cheated, my mom couldn't find Daycare for me, between her active hippie life, so she let me get babysat by the computer science department at Humbolt State university. I was entering code into Punchcards when I was in Kindergarden.![]()
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Dalton wrote:My first computer experience was Oregon Trail on the old Apple ][e.
Damn same here! So much fun running around and shooting stuffMy first computer experience was Oregon Trail on the old Apple ][e.
Ah, yes, the good old days of AppleBASIC, playing OT on II+'s and IIe's, and line numbers being required for programs.Dalton wrote:My first computer experience was Oregon Trail on the old Apple ][e.