Any one remember what it was like getting there first computer

I was probably 6 or 7 I got my first 'pc' in my room, I'm not sure if it was an amiga or atari. All I remember was that I had a parrot program where the parrot read what you typed, some breakout clone and a game where you played a top down Indiana Jones frog. It really started with 9 when I got a 386, I loved that thing. Always got the crap stuff when my dad had enough of it, which I was okay with.

Started relatively late when I asked for a family computer at the beggining of 2004 when I was 17 which I used for some college typing projects and also getting into IL2 - Sturmovik. The computer was some Dell prebuild which was ok to use, I mean it did the job well enough. This is what started off my interest in computers.

The family had a computer back around the early 90s but I never held an interest in it back then. Dad bought a couple of history cd-roms on air battles that I liked going on but that was about it. Think it was running Windows 95

Oh boy, Pentium processor, 512 MB of storage and 16 of RAM I think. My first computer that was my own.
My parents had a 486 before this that I used to do stuff on but they were very panicky that I would "break" it

Got a white box Pentium 166 with Windows 95. I was super excited but I'm not sure why, all I did with it that day was doodle around in Paint and then look up model train kits on MSN.

Computers just seemed magical back then.

Get mom to bring work computer home and type
Cd keen
Keen

Only a black screen. Apparently my mother brought the monochrome screen, beg to bring the color screen, eventually she does. Then my uncle gives me doom on a bunch of diskettes and everything changed. I was 7 at the time, windows 95 came out a little while after and I never went back to dos

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>>62211742
yeah dude i have a photo i recently scanned

my sister and i both loved that machine

iigs forever, still works great and with upgrades

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It was absolutely glorious.
Those 5 disks of whooping 720KB each, loaded with 32KB pirate games, and also some books with even more games that i had to type to have.
Truly a magnificent machine.
And then i discovered that in some of my books, there were a bunch of games i could not play because they were written for the apple II or TK85 (a ZX81 clone), and i learned by bruteforce and guesswork how to port em to my machine and learned how to actually code this way.

>>62212626
I wonder if modern one-task microcomputer with some sort of script language (basic, python, lua...) would be successful as machine for learnin how things works

>>62211742
> 24MB Random Access Memory Memory