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When you started to work/play with a computer

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Cappa

My first encounter with a computer was '90 or '91. My father gets something
like a notebook from work for some days. It was a XT with less than 10 Mhz.
Maybe it was a Toshiba T2000
Althought he gets a floppy with Prince of Persia. It was the first game I
ever played on a computer. I've played it on this notebook for hours on the
amber monitor and get squared eyes from that.

But '89 i got a Sinclar ZX 81. My greater brother typed in a little program
like paint. At this time I were 6 years old. I were fascinated about the dot
which paints something on the screen. Typing on the keyboard was very hard and
you need lots of symbols, peek and poke commands. If someone interest - my
father-in-law have a sinclair zx 81 already and a book with much programs.
If someone want i'd scan this.

'92 oder '93 i got my own computer. AT 286, 12Mhz, 1 Mbyte RAM, 20 Mbyte HDD.
It was great! There was Prince of Persia installed :-)
I've played much with this system. There was DR DOS 3.41 installed. Some day
i tested the program "password" and secured the system files. A week later i got
MS DOS 5.0 - loved the DOSSHELL

I could write for the next few days which systems in which way I had destruct but for
the next few weeks what i learned from it.

How's your way to modern computers?

Edit: Very interesting in at this story is that i'm allowed to play Doom and Duke 3D
my parents haven't said anything against that. With 12 I've played Doom 1 and no one
said something. Today...

Edit2: A funny story... my parents never saw the potential of computer. So it was only
a waste of time for them. I've learned most of all because of games that wouldn't work.
They never understand this. Some day they said, i've play to much and used a key to lock
the computer. Some of you know the keys.If they are closed the BIOS say "No keyboard" and
stop booting. I've cut the wire, made it longer and put a switch in the circuit. I've hide
the switch between the other cables at the back of the desktop.

12 years ago*

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MENNONH

I hopped on my first computer at age 3 (81-82), was in the town Newspaper. (Wichita Falls, Tx) It also helped that my father was head of the Texas Commodore 64 Users Group, of which was the first computer (portable versoin) I ever realistically used and learned how to cd . to get into a game of my choice once I entered the floppy disc or the cartridge. Since games were either extremely cheap or "freeware" back then I have literally about 300 games.

What I really remember is Archon, Police Chase, Skate or Die, Monster Construction Set (AWESOME), Racing Destruction Set (AWESOMER) and many more. Next thing I remember moving to is a 90mhz MS DOS computer running with a Cyrix overclock chip pushing it to 133mhz or something like that. *BTW, does ANYONE remember these, it went on top of the standard chip. I remember doing a lot of Q-Basic and star spangled banner set to fireworks.

From there I just remember Wolfenstein, Rise of the Triad, a very similar FPS game based on a spaceship, much much playtime put into all the Commander Keen games, pinball.

I also remember playing this one Nascar game, Nascar video This game was so much fun, good graphics, you could make custom paint jobs, I think I only completed a race twice. It was more fun to turn around, drive backwards and watch the pileups that happened, not a single Nascar game I have seen has been able to recreate this feeling.
From there it just grew into a love for almost all games and me wasting my life away getting two associates degrees, going through Cisco networking classes, learning Sharepoint, HTML, .NET and working in Retail for the last 12 years while playing games.

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