Way back at Morristown High School, around '69, we got an old IBM 1620. It was focused on scientific computation, in contrast to the 1133. Lots of blinking lights and code that allowed very primitive ...

LOS ANGELES -- My first writing implement was a piece of chalk with which I scribbled a series of shapes that, according to my parents, spelled my first name. I was 2. My father took a photograph and ...

The first piece of technology that I could call my own was a 13-inch Acer Chromebook. I won it in a raffle at the school fair during fifth grade. The fair had raffles every year, but the prizes were ...

We're creating image galleries from your responses to the survey below. Keep checking back as we add new galleries to the mix: Your First Computer - Suggestions from readers Don't forget the survey at ...

I've finally taken the plunge on building my own computer from scratch. I've done several amounts of upgrading my hardware but i've never built a computer from scratch.<P>The reason for this post is ...

I am building my first computer this summer. I don't really know much at all other than what I have read online in the past month or so. I have decided I like to spend around $1500 but that is just my ...

1982: Programming in BASIC, playing TI Invaders My first home computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A. We didn’t have a monitor (we hooked it up to our television set) and there was no disk drive.

Does a list of computers we've owned tell us anything meaningful about technology, business, or education? Not sure. Could you reconstruct a lifetime of computer ownership? Would be interesting to ...

Some Computerworld bloggers have been telling tales of their first computers. I figured I’d throw mine into the pool here… The year was 1984, I was 11 years old and baseball cards were rapidly fading ...