How long have you been using computers?

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1968 for me.

Finished school with no idea what I wanted to do - except that I didn't want to continue with my A-level subjects of languages and classics.

People said to me "You play chess and bridge. You must have a logical mind so you should go into computing." Which I did.

at a rough guess, 1987 at school, BBC Model B I started out with, then Acorn A3000/4000/5000, then PCs running Windows 95

When I finally got a computer of my own (a 486sx 25MHz), it was running Windows 3.1 until the memory became faulty, 1998 came, £220 pound parted from me later, it was upgraded to pentium spec (CPU was a cheaper alternative to the Pentium at the time). 225MHz, still running windows 3.1, until I took it upon myself to upgrade it to Windows 98, then later 98se

2004 and coolblue was born, 100% built by me, however while I was away on holiday that year, the machine developed problems which were unknown until I returned, at that time the machine hat a 1.8GHz athlon xp CPU and 256MB RAM. sadly I had to dispose of the motherboard as it failed, 2007 it uses a similar CPU at 2.11 GHz and a lot more RAM, with a motherboard that seems more reliable

so to put it short, 20 years I have been using computers

I've been using computers since the late 80s when I was only about 4 or 5 years old. My first computer was a Spectrum ZX.

I have one hell of a history with computers...
1997 was the year i started using them and i was repairing ye olde mac plus with the 512k ram and 1.44 meg hdd for my primary school because they were too cheap to upgrade and way too cheap to hire somebody...
I have used all versions of mac os and windows and still have near every version of both os's here.
My first personal pc was a 486dx2 66 running ms dos which was ruthlessly upgraded, at one time i had 128 meg of edo ram in it!
My current systems are as follows:
Internet server,
AMD athlon 800, 256 meg, geforce 2 mx440, 4gig primary 20gig secondary windows 2000 advanced server.
Normal use machine,
AMD athlon xp 2400+, 1gig, ati 9600 all in one wonder 256 meg, 80 gig primary xp sp2,
20 gig secondary vista ultimate, using a mac studio display for a monitor!
Mac,
G4 450 256meg, ati 16 meg vid, 40 gig hdd, os 10.3.9

i was lucky. my grandfather ran a computer store in the 70s and 80s. mom told me i learned to type and read at the same time, when i was almost 2, from playing with his computers. i remember being a little kid and exploring ADVENT on a commodore PET i think. he gave us an apple ii+, with an amber monitor, which eventually got traded for a iie with a green on black screen, and then color (!).

i stayed up late playing macpaint on the day my grandfather got the first mac 128k at his store, a little before they were released. my dad bought a mac se when they came out (i remember hearing '1 megabyte of ram standard! that's so much, more then you'd ever need.'. later when he bought a hard drive for it (didn't come with one) he went for the 40 meg instead of the 20 meg for the same reason.). i was a mac fanboy through system 7, but abandoned them before they went RISC. i still think a iifx would be a super-cool computer to have.

my first windows machine was a pentium 120 i think, running 95. since then price/performance concerns have kept kept me in the wintel world, but i'm happy there.

Since I was 9 so about 12 years.

Around five years of age. IBM XT 8088. Long obsolete even by the time I got my hands on it. 640k of ram. 5 megahertz. 4 colors. Pure awesome.

About 8 or 9 years, I think.

Only started to get mad into them about 2 years though.

I've been using computers since I was about 3 (on an IBM PS/1). Though I didn't become really interested in them until I was 11 or 12.

I've been into computers for as long as I can remember. My family got a Macintosh when I was really little and I quickly became addicted.

I learned to use a computer in 1984, when I was 5. We played games with a green arrow called "Myrtle the Turtle", and we typed green letters and numbers on a black screen. My best friend, who lived across the street, got a computer circa 1987. It was an Apple. My parents finally got a family computer in 1989. It ran MS-DOS. I got my first computer in 1996 when I started college. It ran Windows 95. That was when I got to start using the Internet. Before then, I had only heard about it from other kids.

I started to learn how to plunk away on a computer when I was about 10 years old (about 1983). Forget the exact model of the computer, but it was made by Texas Instruments. Ever since, I've been pretty much glued to a computer of some sort.

I have been a Geek for 26 years (eep). I was 9 when I got my BBC Micro back in 1982: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro I spent hours typing programs in from magazines, or playing tapes in an old skool 70s tape deck. If only I had a modem then.

Now I'm trilingual with Windoze, OSX & Linux, and have been paid to surf for a living since about 1997

How long have you been using computers..

Since 83 or 84 off and on but not on the net until 2000/2001 or so.

I didn't understand what it was when other people told me about it. Modem? Huh? Phone cord. Data file in invisible space? Say...what?

If someone would have just walked me through it I'd have been on in 96.