When did you learn to use computers?

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This just popped into my mind the other day when I was reminescing about my childhood... How old were you when you first learned to use a computer?

I personally learned to use (i.e. play games with) my sister's Commodore 128 when I was 4. That wass before I coulfd learn to drive a bike! And I learned how to use a PC when I went to school, arounnd the age of 7.

So, what about you?

Ara
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I used to have a spectrum, with rubbery keys. All I could do on it was play "Horace and the Spiders" though.

Learnt at school with dodgy Macintoshs mostly I suppose. We used to get them to talk and insult the computing teachers...

 

I used to "->L" away on a Commodore 64 a long time ago. (I must have been 8 or 10 or something) Never really understood what the "turbotape" was for, though. (One of those fundamental truths in life; *always* run "turbotape", and thou shalt never stray from the light ).

[EDIT:] Still learning the importance of smilies...

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I used to program games with basic on my C64 when I was around 9. I still have my program codes and books etc to this day

Something of note however is, although everyone (including children) can operate a windows os, many don't know what the heck is going on

 

My history is like Pseudo Mage's.

Only I pretty early left basic to rot and started to (ab)use raster from within IRQ sequences. And yes, my C64 is still working!

btw Pseudo, I might try to move some of my assembler works on PC emulators, wanna see 'em?

 

i started playing commodore 64 when i was 6years old(im 14 now)

 

I never really learnt to use computers, I know the basics but thats it. My first puter was a commodore wannabe that I never learnt how to use. Only time I used it was when my uncle started it for me

 

My first experience with computers was in High School. We had a mini computer with displayless terminals (everything was on paper) that used paper tape as the storage medium. You would type in a program, in Basic for instance, and the terminal would produce the output on a roll of paper. If you wanted to save your program, the terminal would output a punched paper tape that could be reinserted and rerun later.
The next year, we got TRS-80's. These were much better. You could use 5 1/4" floppy disks, run DOS, and play games on the monochrome monitor. 64K of RAM! We were unstoppable!

 

I first started using computers when i was tiny ... younger than 5 i know that. I mean my first computer was some amstrad and i remember playing this game called 'Battlefield Germany' ... anyone heard of it?

 

our first computer was a 486 and we got it when i was...about 6 i think...it was alright, we still have it in the basement, its waiting for me to ressurect it sometime, maybe into a server of some kind...
-CJ

 

My mother brought home a Tandy Computer, and I spent hours playing "Bounce a Baby".

 

I used to play with BBC Micros (I used to write crappy little Q&A programmes in BASIC and play Repton ) and my Grandad's Amstrad CPC when I was a little kid (really little; before I even went to school, I think). Then came the Amiga 500+ and finally the PC.

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I had a class in high school with Cobal and Pascal. Now I can type just a little faster

 

My parents bought a computer for some reason when I was 9 or so, and I just started using it. I pretty much learned most things myself, although I did take a computer class, but it taught few things. I still have a long way to go before I learn programming and all that. Still. . . I can type pretty darn fast.

 

Extremist yeah I've learned machine code on C64 but it took a lot of time, so didn't get into it much. Sure it'd be interesting

 

Waay back on my daddy's knee when he got his TRS-80. Green screen, black text. I used to do a typing program on it, this sarcastic computer psychologist thing called Eliza, and Space Invaders. I must've been four or five at the time.

 

My parents bought me and my brother an Apple computer when I was 6 years old. I haven't stopped using them since.

 

3rd, 4th grade.

 

When i was 8 years old i went round a friends house and played on his computer after school. I spent most of my after-school time round his house for a year and a half before i convinced my parents to buy me a computer of my own. Since then i have got better and don't find many common computer problems that bugger my system up that i can't fix.