Hey, Jow Forums. What's your oldest computer related memory?

Oh, and on my dad's computer we also had some kid's learning software, one that had a voiced narrator explaining astronomy and the solar system, and another one where you could write and draw and play some simple games.

trying to load some game from audio tape on zx spectrum clone

Before I could write, I tried spelling words on my dad's TRS-80. I typed directly into the terminal and used "-" to separate words because for some reason I didn't know what spaces were. I was 4 or something.

A demonstration of some dumb educational program from a company called "future kids" (just like that, in English, even though I'm not from an English speaking country) that was supposed to teach kids about computers. The type of computer or operating system is unknowable, but this must've been somewhere around '92 or '93. My first computer came a few years later and it ran windows 95.

cd'ing into a long-ass folder path on DOS to play a weird dragon-themed shmup because it wouldn't launch on Win3.1

>parents have a beige Canon laptop with a monochrome screen (on a broken hinge)
>they let me use it for goofing around with Latin translation

using a keyboard for the first time by typing text into ms paint on win 98, must have been 5 or 6, was at my aunt's computer

Pressing the turbo button in school for the first time.

Also, remembering when you could download random gifs on the internet for free.

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Loading games on the Commodore 64

Rct2 on 2 windows 98.

My dad programming a ‘Happy Birthday’ program onto our 48k ZX Spectrum on my 4th Birthday in 1983.

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My dad letting me play Prince of Persia on MS-DOS and dying horrifically 10 seconds later because I couldn't comprehend jumping right on time.
Space Invaders were much more fun.

Booting a 386 computer with Dos on the 5inch floppy disk and then inserting another floppy disk to play Dig Dug.

hard to place, probably the sesame street game on commodore 64

printing something on this piece of shit

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my grandpas ancient windows xp computer

public school i was in before 1993 had a mac or two in each classroom but i only used it once with the assistance of one of my classmates but i cant remember what for.
then my parents stuck me in some weird private school in the early 90s and for the first time i had to type out and use a computer school work (was in grade 4). first time ever using a windows computer and being taught how to use a word processor (pic).

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a PDP 6 clone

Playing Frogger on the ORIC-1

Windows Vista on Pentium D and 512MB RAM

either didn't use a computer until over age 6 or underage b&

Writing autistic fantasy stories about classmates and teachers in wordpad.

weird educative DOS games on the IBM pc at school

This

or some other game, such as:
classicreload.com/aladdin.html

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10 SCREEN 2
20 CIRCLE(100,100),50
30 GOTO 30

"Turning off" the computer by shutting down the CTR monitor in my father's friend pawn shop.
The he told me something like "Haha no buddy, that's now how you turn it off". I asked some things about computers and after answering me (?) he let me play with the old Paint program in win95.
My first pick was also the weird canister.

Sitting in my dad's lap infront of his 286 in dos/win2.11 and drawing crude 256 color recreations of scenes from Disney's Robin Hood.

He printed every single one, in color, twice. One copy stayed at home, the other got pinned up at his desk at work.

That computer/printer must have cost him a fortune back then. I wouldn't be surprised if it was close to a month's salary.

Using kid pix on the computer lab Macintoshes and dropping bomb effects constantly.

That's my memory too bro. At my older sister's first apartment.
I sprayed a pineapple with sunglasses and then later played that space pinball game.

Actually, thinking about it, it was probably way more than a month's salary. Maybe even two or three.

encarta mind maze

>He printed every single one, in color, twice.
wholesome

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When I got my first computer the first thing I did was to burn gta2 I borrowed from a friend on a CD.

mucking about with spectrum 48k and trying to code games
10 GO TO 20
20 "OP IS A FAGGOT"

Printing a colour picture of a digimon and being impatient so I tried pulling on the paper to make it faster and it left a line across the page with three distinct colours. It was pretty cool but I was disappointed that I ruined my picture.
It wasn't this image but it was this digimon.

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playing Googol math games and Prince of Persia in the grade school computer class.

Doing this for the first time has to be a classic

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Playing Jimmy White's Snooker on Windows 3.1

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Playing Beast on a PC at primary school. That PC had a green monochrome CRT, though.

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Playing educational math games on the old MSDOS IBM computers in elementary school.

The disk was messed up so it always froze in the same place.

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Playing some typing racecar game in the late 90's on compsci class.

I sucked but it made me want to get better to beat my classmate.

Still can't find that damn game.
Everything is a web based service.

not the oldest, bit the most vivid is playing driver 3 in winter time while listening to the radio because my mum's computer didn't have any sound.

>inb4 zoomer
yes, the mid-late 2000's where comfy as fuck

Removing insulation tape on 286 PC BIOS, and wondering why it won't boot.

Playing Chem Lab on the Apple II at school.

playing some interactive green eggs and ham game on my family's windows xp pc

Unironically,
>2004
>8 years old, about to turn 9
>We get a computer
>First thing I do is search up ways to trick my mom
>Come across shutdown command and how to disguise it as internet explorer with a message popup saying you have a virus

And there started my journey into programming. I soon started learning scripts and making little logic games in batch. Then I started making VB calculators, auto clickers auto typers for this RuneScape game I used to play. Then I found out there were private servers for that game and I started coding those in Java by the time I was 10 or 11, and just kept learning and practicing.

It felt good. My highschool teacher crushed my spirit and my digestive disease crumbled my Outlook on living. I haven't programming since I was 18 or 19. It was a good 10 years but I stopped. Feels bad. But now I'm real good at shooting and fighting so whatevs. Currently a broadband specialist.

Playing Fun School 2 on a BBC micro.

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typing a bunch of random stuff on google on our old gateway (couldn't even read or spell well back than maybe i was in like the first year of pre school). Than one day i typed something and searched, and a bunch of pics of R2-D2 came up. some im pretty sure that was my first internet search.

>mfw searching the internet for digimon to get sucked into digiworld
Why wasn't I chosen frens? :(

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>t. le elite haxor
That sounds like the backstory to a movie hacker.

Commander keen in ms dos probably on windows 3.1

at bday party watching friends play blood,postal II,Dragonball.

youtube.com/watch?v=MWNBhHf5reI
youtube.com/watch?v=5X3_wJXjSck

>trying to code games
>can't even do a hello world loop

10 PRINT "FIXED THAT FOR YOU"
20 GOTO 10

Fucking up Windows ME on a weekly basis by deleting random shit from the Windows folder or installing malware and waiting for dad to restore it with Partition Magic

DOS menu system where the letters took you to different programs/games, and X would take you to Windows 3.1

Also some mario typing game

My dad letting me play Quake while sitting on his lap

Playing some 2d platformer on my classmates's computer

Drawing circles and stuff on my parent's winxp pc. I still have it XD

Playing this in kindergarten on my dads apple ii at his music studio.

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Going with my mom to the computer room at the university and watching these things spin. [spoiler]I'm fucking old[/spoiler]

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Playing Oregon Trail in 2nd grade.

playing LSL1, sokoban and titus the fox on a black&white 286

setting picture's if penies as desktop wallpapers on all school library pcs when the library was empty

Playing some edutainment math game on my parent's Win90something PC.

same, then failing at saving my pieces of art in my father's diskettes

i went to my dad's office to play rollercoaster tycoon during school breaks. on a compaq machine :^)

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>Tech illiterate teacher has an imac.
>She asks us to type in our names or something.
>I press the glowing button on the keyboard.
>Computer shuts down.
>Teacher flips her shit and cant get it going again.

My gramma brought over a computer that her work was getting rid of and we spent hours installing Windows 95 on it

playing
>Doom
>Carmageddon 1 and 2
>Bad Toys 3D
>Need 4 Speed 2 and 3 Hot pursuit
>Road Rash 2
>Kidz Pix Deluxe 4
>Soda Off Road Racing
>Galaxy of Games 2
>Elf Bowling flash game
>Half Life 1 and Quake
>MSpaint
Fuck I'm old..

On my uncle's W95 machine.

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customizing windows 95 (or 98 I forget) desktop, wallpapers, screensavers
encyclopedia encarta

Amiga 1200 was my first "real" computer too. The "Desktop Dynamite" bundle.

amigahistory.plus.com/dynamite.html

Every Sunday for the next five years I'd go to the Sunday market and buy pirated games and demoscene / music discs. I eventually sold it and hundreds of games and demoscene / music discs to put money towards getting a PC to play Half Life.

When I was 5 I was given this old eMachines Windows 98 computer and a fuck ton of old Windows 9x era games, I remember playing games on it for hours.

Playing "Little Computer People" on my grandads Commodore 64 in the late 80s... Me and my sister packed it up to watch TV, then wanted to unpack it again to play more as there was nothing good on the 4 channels, but we plugged the tapedrive in wrong, and nothing would load.

I must have been 6 or 7

Something like this?

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Underrated.

>tfw Jarec is still a better villain than anything Disney came up with so far
>a video game from the 90s has better story, characters and even acting than a multi billion dollar franchise in the 2010s
The absolute state of hollyjewd

Kid Pix 2 on a Mac

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Prince of Persia for me too. I don't even remember what the OS was but I guess some kind of DOS

Launching Scorched Earth from DOS prompt.

trying to copy a program from an instruction guide on a commodore vic20.

listening to the windows XP installation music at my grandpa's house sometime in 2004

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Based.

playing some game that was similar to wipeout on win95. no idea what it was.