How long have you been using computers?

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Between programming classes in college, working as a programmer, and home projects, about 27 years total, starting in 1974.

My dad had a AT which was monochromatic goldenrod display haha. It was early DOS and had a 5 1/5 inch floppy only. Before that we had a TI tape driven computer with Soccer, Tax Software and some other game that involved climbing mountains. Eventually we got EGA then CGA visual PCs. They were 286 then 386 DX, ran Willy Beamish and Battle Chess. I remember the first Wing Comander game, omgz. Kings Quest IV was the first CD based game I ever played. Spent plenty of time playing Doom and Wolfenstein 3D a long time ago as well. My first actualy PC was a Pentium 1 60 Mghz Gateway 2000 which I later upgraded myself to a P1 133 lol. I played the f**k out of Quake on my dads cable internet when he first got it. I loved all the mods and multiplayer stuff including the birth of bots. Unreal Tournament came out and then took over. I loved Baldur's Gate and some of the older DnD games as well, but not quite as much as BG.

I would say I started with computers in the mid 80s, the TI was before I even had a NES or my friend had Atari. Right now I have a AMD Athlon XP with 1GB of RAM and a ATI Radeon 9600 128MB as my secondary PC (running Win XP). My laptop is a POS Pentium 3 with 256 MB of RAM and runs Win 2000 pro. My main PC is a Pentium 4 3 Ghz with 2 GB of RAM and another Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB running XP. They are all for games of course except for the laptop which is just surfing. I have a Xbox360, PS2, Gamecube, DS, Dreamcast, NES, SNES, etc as far as consoles go.

since i was... uh... 5? 6? ZX Spectrum was my first computer. Feels like computers have always been there for me.

1980 was the year I started playing with them. It was an Apple II. It was at school and we had one with a cassette player.

The first one I owned was an IBM clone that I upgraded with an NEC V20. I had an EMM expansion board, a clock board, dual 5 1/4 floppies and a 10mb mfm hard drive that cost more than the car I drove.

Ever since I started school.

My first exposure to computers must have been back in the early-to-mid 1970's, when my father (who was one of the pioneers in IT here in Denmark) would sometimes carry this gadget home from his workplace to do programming work over a week-end. My "childhood language" even had a word for it; a "push-and-beep" (since you could push the buttons and have the thing say "beep")...

In the spring of 1985 I got my own machine; an SX-64, i.e. the "portable" version of the well-known Commodore 64 (only to have it nicked when our home was burglarized 9 days later -- causing about a month of waiting for the insurance to replace it). It lasted for ten years before giving in, at which time I jumped to the PC/windows platform.

I have gotten hold of another SX-64, and once in a blue moon fire it up to play games or do a bit of coding on the "real thing" (rather than the C-64 emulator I have on both the desktop and the laptop machine). I still like to tinker with assembly/machine language on that old 8-bit thing, but I've never really gotten into doing C++ code under Windows...!

My first psudo computer was a Vtech kids computer but you could program using BASIC on it. I wrote my first program when I was like 6. It was awesometacular fun!

My first real computer was like when I was 11. It was an old DOS computer with a green and black screen. I hearted that computer!

15+ years. First played games on my brother's 386

Can't remember, but it's definately more than 8 years.

25 years 1982 TRS-80 at school then Commodore VIC20

Our family used paint a lot in the early days of our family computer. A lot of pointless pictures were created but they've been deleted now.

I learned to program in basic on a time share terminal connected to a JC computer in 1979.

Got my first PC in 1990 to do my thesis. It was a Mac with a 20M hard drive and 2M of RAM. Thank God it had a 1.4M floppy. I remember laughing when a colleague of mine said at the time that he would buy a PC when they had 200M of RAM. I guess the joke was on me!

When I was about 8 years old, helped my Mom in the computer lab, played a bit on windows 3.1. I'm 17 now... Using the windows XP OS, and I'd be ashamed to post my system specs.

I have been using computers since I was five. That makes twelve years for me.

Been using computers since I was about 6 or 7 yrs old... First experience was with windows 95... Oh how I loved to crash that computer I then went to a Mac computer which I didn't care for much because it ran very slow. Then I got a win98 computer which is my favorite computer, (currently my dad uses it and I loaded Slackware Linux on it), after that I started building my own... Current specs are ...

Opteron [email protected]
2GB Mem
80GB IDE drive and a 250GB Sata drive
an old DVD-RW drive that cost me about $200 lol
8800GTS 320MB

(Dual boot XP and Slackware Linux)

Gives me about 11 or 12 years on the computer

Ah Civ II, I knew ye well.

Since '95 for me (I was 9 years old). Now pluggin away at my Qosmio. 1200x1900, 2Ghz Core 2 Duo, 256 nvidea, 2 100gb HDs (found if I keep any info on the second I get blue screen of death due to overheating...drag...sob)...That's what I get for buyin Toshiba.

-Ozzy