In light of the current (yet eternal) flamewar- I wanted to confess the depth of my affiliation. Apple ][ 4ever.
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum. 1983 Hey... same year, although I was 7
Atari ST Didn't have one, but my best friend at the time did... and I coveted it.
Amstrad of some description Again, didn't have it, my uncle did, and we'd use it weekly. Not really a huge leap in power over the Spectrum... but it did have a disc drive instead of tape.
Some form of 8088 based PC
Then a steady progression of PCs, from CGA to EGA to VGA to the now monster power of a dual core, directx 10 beast.
My exposure to Apples? We used Apple IIes in primary school and I think into early high school before they upgraded them all to PCs. And for some reason there was a Commodore 64 in the corner... weird.
I did not grow up on console gaming like most, but the Spectrum and then into the PC... in fact the Wii is the first console I've ever owned.
You said you're getting an iphone this month, Dag. When you go to the apple store, don't be afraid when they put those electrodes on your scalp and you go to that glowing white temple and meet The Mighty Jobs. It's pretty neat.
Around the same time my dad started bringing home a ThinkPad from work which he literally NEVER used and so I installed the PC version of Autodesk Animator on it and started doing my thing. I basically animated a trailer for what in my mind would be the greatest video game cutscene of all time. At 18 I saved money and bought a 486DXII-66 with 8MB (big for the time) and a 28.8 (fast for the time). Never looked back since then, to the point I now literally spend all day, every day in front of my computers.
But who's that geeky looking kid in the picture?
Some friends had an old Mac back in the early 90's, and when I'd stay over they'd let me play around with it. Black and white monitor, low resolution, but it had games and a word processor and I thought I would be in heaven if I could afford one of those.
Now that thing would be a museum piece, and "only" twenty years old.
For better or worse, computers didn't start to spread until I was out of high school and just starting college. They've changed our lives a lot. Curse and blessing all in one. All of that information at our finger tips, and all we want to see are boobs, butts, and LOL cats.
I often think that the Matrix wasn't fictional at all.