follow-up

[coraa]

Due to popular demand, a follow-up poll to my previous poll -- to get some demographic datapoints. :)

[Poll #1462225]

Comments

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm wrong...I think it was at home. I remember using the mouse backwards and when my mom corrected me I was very confused. (awwwwwwwww)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

awww!

We used DOS at first, and my brother became proficient in it despite not being able to read yet, which is pretty impressive since it was all typed-text command-line stuff.

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

PS--can I tell you how excited I am about dinner tomorrow? Yum!

[rm.livejournal.com]

My first experience was using LOGO on a Commodore Pet with a tape drive in kindergarten

[tedeisenstein.livejournal.com]

My first computer experience was using a teletype in the high school, connected to some mysterious place downtown with a "mini computer", most likely a big hulk of a machine with a powerful 64K of RAM, or some such.

I learned to program (Fortran) with Hollerith 80-column cards, the ones that required a #2 pencil to fill in, and Lord ha' mercy on thy soul if you filled in the wrong blank. Proofreading programs was a major pain in the ass - and probably led to my current skills as a proofreader, come to think of it.