At what age did you get your first computer?

Same here! I think I was 7 when my grandparents bought it for us. I remember the tower was absolutely huge on that thing and weighed as much as I did.

The first time I started it up and it stopped loading leaving me at the command prompt, I remember being upset and thought something was wrong as I had inserted the disk to play a game but nothing happened. After much frustration I learned how to switch to the A:\ drive and find/enter the filename needed to launch the game, from on I was hooked.

I remember when we upgraded to DOS 5.1 (or was it 6? can’t remember that far back) and I discovered the dosshell (dos-hell) command to see your files visually thinking this was the future!

I saw this a few years later and my mind was blown :stuck_out_tongue:

v=5VPFKnBYOSI

Just realized that was 20 years ago :eek: ugh where has time gone…