Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I got my first computer at, I don't know, when I was 11 years old? 10?
My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
When I was little, we used to have Atari.
I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.