How many years ago did you get your first own PC?

I got my first PC (a Samsung laptop) when I was 7 years old! What about you? Please let me know.

When I was seven years old I got my parents' old Medion laptop. (Recently screwed on, it was a small 320GB HDD with 4GB RAM and a 2nd generation i3 installed)

After that, when I was about ten, I got a more budget PC (i5 6400, GTX 960 and 8GB RAM).

I actually had it for a long time, in between I only played on my PS4 for a while.

When I turned 14, I bought a more expensive PC with my own money (i9 9900KF, 2070 Super, 16GB RAM, water cooling).

Hopefully it will last a long time.

I got my first computer when I was 17. That was in 1980, it was a computer that I built myself with my brother. Boards routed, etched, other boards scratched, then soldered. 2KB RAM (kilobytes, not mega or gigabytes), 2KB ROM, 2 megahertz clock frequency with 8 bit bus width…

When I was 6 I had a Commodore C64 and when I was 7 I had a Commodore Amiga computer. To my knowledge, the term PC did not exist for that time.

When I was 11 I had my first "PC" (as you would call it today).

A gigantic monster PC! Two floppy drives (3.5 "and 8"), 10 MB (!) Hard disk, 3 MB RAM and a 512 KB graphics card! Unfortunately I didn't have a sound card! The IBM 268 CPU had 25 MHz! *hot

Believe me! The whole thing coupled to a 14 "VGA monitor… But the classmates watched enviously ^^ + gg Small games played in the highest resolution! So 640 x 480px and 256 colors!

Does n Raspberry count?

Mhm

Well, then around 4-5 years something like that

But normal device around 9-10 years old (Medion laptop that is still running today and still uses Geforce Now to conjure up nice games on the screen xD)

Oh, a dream! Software written yourself? O_O

When I was 11 I had my first "PC"

Me too. A 286 even. With "Turbo" 33MHz! He even managed a few "beeps"! Later a 386 with 66MHz!

Yes, of course, counts as PC ^^

Well then xD

PC… Hm… Probably 17 or 18.

For something 5,000 DM when the stripped down i386SX came out. With DR DOS and MS-DOS.

To my knowledge, the term PC did not exist for that time.

Nobody called it that - but I'm almost certain that our C64 said "personal computer" on the keyboard.

Yes, there was no other way… And in the beginning (without the ROM) not permanent either. So always type in everything. In hex code. I still know the hex codes for some commands today, C2 = JNZ (Jump on No Zero), CA = JZ (Jump on Zero), 78: MOV BA, etc.

Arg! Yes, you can no longer imagine today! Today you have "Visual Basic" and drag buttons somewhere and you can label the ^^ + gg

Alternatively in the source code "if $ name == 'peter' do that or that…":-)

Back then I programmed my own drivers in assembler in the 80 / 90s:

"movb $ 0x61,% al each 0x80484bb Q5bomb + 103"

Honest? My mother thought I was crazy! Sit for hours, oh nights, in front of the small monitor (mine was "amber") … And type in any "devil's characters" ^^ + gg

Yes, the turbo button! From 25 MHz the display on the tower has changed to 33 MHz! With the Intel later from 60 MHz to 66 MHz… WOW! As far as I remember I didn't notice any difference ^^ + gg

We didn't have a monitor, it was an old calculator. I had written such a "music program", was able to play two-part rectangular tones, my brother then programmed Bach's "Prelude and Fugue" in a post-campaign, I received the special prize for entertainment electronics in SOlingen from Jungend Forscht in Solingen… It was 40 years ago…

later had a 6502, an Oric, there it was with a TV as an output and a real keyboard. And I still had a ZX81 (49 D-mark), which was also programmed in assembler, was much faster than everything that ran in basic… Eight-women calculation in basic (all 92 solutions) 30 minutes, in assembler 4 seconds…

Always thought that only knives were made in Solingen! ^^ + gg I was lied to when I was a child, grew up in Wuppertal… Hmpf?! O_O

By the way, my luck and fate was that my best friend's father worked at Deutsche Post! Say: I had a modem (made of metal, the size of a pizza box) and with it access to BTX and the "Internet". That was actually unknown at the beginning of the 90s and extreme luxury!

It wasn't quick! Download a picture (256 colors)… Yo, you could take a shower, have lunch and then the download was almost done:-)
But had a good tariff: 9 DM per hour ^^ + gg

Then later the time when you work as a student, save all your money and finally (!) Get a CD burner! 900DM! A blank? 45DM! And with the first burned CD the screensaver comes on and the burning process stops ^^ + gg * scream & panic & breathless

Conclusion: It was a great time! I don't want to miss it! Rewind data on datasettes… You were young, you had time ^^ + gg