Word processing as there were no games when I got interested. It was CoCo III from Radio Shack, after that, it was, if I remember right, a PS2 from IBM that had monitur and unit all in one with a floppy drive and no hard drive, 512K mem and a monocrome screen. Was a hoot.

The CoCo was back in the mid 80's and you used your TV for the monitor and a casset recorder to save programs that you wrote in Basic.

Edited by - Finalday on 8/22/2004 7:19:08 AM

I've been using computers for most of my life. I can't really remember WHEN I started using them. I think it was 3 or 4. I remember when my dad brought home one of those old "portable computers" that had the monochrome screen built in to it and all you had to do to put away the keyboard was stick it on front of the machine. I still remember playing Frogger on that sucker. And the original Donkey Kong. And I can't forget the greatest game ever concieved: Snipes. This was way back in the day when my dad used to work for Novell. So, I've been using the DOS operating system before it became MS-DOS. Several months my dad bought an actual desktop. I can't remember the specs on it, but it's beyond ancient by today's standards. Then, a few years after, my dad brought home our very first color monitor which only displayed 16 colors! WOW! It was so cool at the time. Then about two years after that, my dad brought home Windows 3.1. What a piece of work that was. Then after having a machine powerful enough to play Wolfenstein 3D(Which I got 12 years ago), my dad brought home the shareware version of DOOM. This was the game that REALLY got me hooked on computers and games. God, I'm almost 22 and I feel....old.

"Guns don't kill people....I DO!!"

the computer we had was just...there. so i used it. pretty uneventful story on my half just saw the machine as a new thing to be explored

We had this old machine in our basement at least 10 years ago. We used it mainly for primitive games, including this one star trek game we couldn't figure out, "Hunt for Red October," which when you lost gave you a delightfull 16 color animation of a soviet flag being raised over the capitol, and this one civ II style game, except with cooler (not better) graphics that allowed you to see your own image. There was this one super cool looking general you could be with blond hair and goatee, mirrored sunglasses, and a red baret. And for some reason, you could play as Brazil and take over the world. It had a nice soundtrack too (sabredance for your initial parade past your soldiers). A wicked machine, until my dad overloaded it and crashed it. I think we still have the old MS-DOS codes. --- VH16

I am Nobody; Nobody is Perfect; Therefore, I am Perfect

I was about 7 and my primary school teacher brought into the classroom a "Lynx" computer with a "turtle" and a huge piece of white paper. No one had seen a computer before, some of the class had never even heard of one. We all got a chance to play with the machine and use the language "LOGO" (the one were you say "forward 4", "left 90", "pen down", "forward 10" etc etc). I was the only kid in the class that could work it. And the teacher was just as confused. So I was allowed to play with it as long as I liked because everyone thought it was boring (including the teacher!) simply because they couldn't work the fecker.

I was completely hooked. 3 years later I begged my parents to help me buy an Amstrad CPC464 and there ya go. By the time I was 16 I was fluent in BASIC, PASCAL/C, COMAL and I knew a bit of COBOL...I had an 'O' Level in Computer Science, a GCSE in IT ('O' Levels switched to GCSEs when I was 14) and I was half way through the 'A' level in Computer Science. I can't explain what hooked me apart from - it was the first thing that I was any good at, so it was natural to like it.

Edited by - gromit on 8/22/2004 2:58:28 AM

I'm not gona deny it....Porn. Come on I know you where all going to write it as well

Not wanting to be left behind on the technology curve, being fascinated with what a PC could do, and discovering games for the PC.

Playing Alex Kidd on the old sega Master System. Good old 8 bit days! When it cam to PC's my teacher had a 386 that we used to use in school. She had encarta on it and i couldn't believe all the things that were on it.

I have to join in the "older" generation - although there is a generation between me and others too

There was no internet when i first sat at a computer - or nothing like today, and certainly no porn. Hence - it started with programming on a BBC basic at school - making patterns, scrolling title credits, very basic computer games etc. It went from there - we just got hooked on the fact that a few instructions would give you an image on the screen. Never dreamed what computers would come to mean later in life - even just 4 years after that first BBC!!

a game on the spectrum zx81 called ' auf weidershen monty ' i was 3 at the time.

i can't quite remember. had a 486 at one point. i remember my cousin bro, who was in sec school at the time i was like 5, was fiddling with a comp quite often, i don't know alot about it though.

I can't either, but I think that it like this:

- We had an N64. I loved playing it (I got sooooo good at it that I started challenging my friends at school at things like Goldeneye. I was something like 8-10 back then). My brother started doing this and that on his PC and I liked it so much that I sometimes played on my dads pc.
- At some point I got my own PC. I loved it, but it sucked. I could barely play anything good on it without bugging up or whatever.
- I wanted moooore After I aquired myself Freelancer, I started to like to mod (a friend at school showed me TLR). I then wanted to send my very first mod to TLR. It was bloody exciting. For those who remember my mod, it was the Galapagus Mod V. (er....) 1.1... My Idol here was Giskard
- I wanted to send the mod to via my dads e-mail address. So he doesn't get spam, I pretended that it doesn't work and I got my own AOL account (yay). I started to like the Internet too. My brother figured a way to connect my PC over a router to the internet. I could barely do anything, just look at sites, etc, but I couldn't write e-mails.
- Then I did this and that and when we moved back to Germany I got my VERY OWN Computer in my own room with I-Net. All my dreams came true

Although the other reason could be that I watched my dad/grand-dad, I dunno, play Pac-Man and I liked it so much.

EDIT: I forgot to tell you about Uplink. I got the game, loved it, went to www.introversion.co.uk and signed in. I could still only access the I-Net over my dads pc and 1 guy was being heavily flamed and I joined in. I continued to just search the site and flame the guy to bits (he got banned the next day I think. He was complaining about the rank system, etc. I actually got to the highest possible rank as a member in 1 night, just from the flaming.) Then my mum came home at around 11 and I was still there. Wow, was she annoyed and wow, did I get shouted at. She said something like that I'd never touch the PC again, and whoop, here I am (She didn't mean it seriously, I just forgot what time it was)

Well, thats me

Edited by - Kendo THM on 8/22/2004 9:29:09 AM

I think it was the excapism factor that has me liking computers so much.

When I'm on the comp, problems just melt away...just like Wolverien in that one X-Men ep...

Life: No one gets out alive.

I was hooked by the beautiful Xwing vs Tie Fighter. My dad got the computer for work purposes, and I forget exactly why, but a demo of that came with it.