• Question: what is your first memory of using a computer?

    Asked by Tree to Sheila, Piyush, Natalia, Gary, Dimitar on 6 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Sheila Castilho

      Sheila Castilho answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I was around 12 or 13, I was at a schools computer lab (yes, computers were not something you had at home!).

      We played with MS paint and played MS games like solitaire and freecell. When we had internet, we would go to chat room and talk to people we didn’t know. It was amazing! Aaaaand a long time ago!

    • Photo: Dimitar Shterionov

      Dimitar Shterionov answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      đŸ™‚ Friends of my parents had a computer and once they invited us for dinner (I was like 10-12). And they had this black-and-white screen connected to a huge box using floppy disks as big as my palm.

      I played games on this computer and this was my introduction to computers.

    • Photo: Gary Munnelly

      Gary Munnelly answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      Hark unto me young ones. The year was 1994.

      Or maybe it was 1993?

      No. 1994.

      I was four years old. It was my Dad’s IBM PS/1. It looked like this:

      I think it was supposed to have a user interface, but we couldn’t figure out how to turn it on. So we did everything by typing commands directly into a terminal. At the time that was the most ordinary thing in the world for us.

      We could play three games on it: A flight simulator, a spelling game and a space shooting game.

      We actually still have that computer, but it hasn’t been turned on in more than 20 years. I wonder if it still works…

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