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  • Not the first I owned, but the first I used.

    Back in 1990 I was 9 years old and my mom enrolled me in a computer class. By this time, the closest I had been to using a computer was playing my Atari 2600 and my NES. I don’t remember what brand the computers at the lab where I took this class were, but I do remember my teacher (a young man, probably around 20) said they didn’t have a hard drive, so in order to boot them up we had to load up MS-DOS with a 5 1/4 inch floppy. The monitors had green monochrome displays and sat on top of the actual PC which was placed horizontally, no mouse, just the keyboard and all this hardware was beige. I learned how to use all kinds of text commands to create/rename/delete directories and text files. The most fun thing I learned was how to use a program called Banner Mania to design and print banners on the dot matrix printers.




  • I’m a man and the oldest of 6. My brother and I grew up being part of the same group of friends but grew apart in our early 20s (we’re now around 40), he has his own group of friends now, we rarely see each other but we’re in good terms. We have 4 sisters, 3 of them and I hang out whenever we get a chance and we’re very close, our other sister stopped hanging out with us because of some drama.




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    1 year ago

    The Atari 2600. I don’t remember which games we owned, I was about 4 at the time, didn’t even understand the objectives of the games. But then our parents got us the NES with the Zapper a few years later and by then I was old enough to understand how to play both Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt.