Earliest Memories of Computing

This blog collects narratives of people's earliest memories of working with computers. I ask contributors to include the following information in narrative, rather than list, form and not necessarily in this order):

• the date of their earliest memory and their age at the time;
  
• the technology and resources involved (hardware and software, manuals, how-to videos, and so on);
  
• the task in which they were engaged (e.g., learning to use the computer, sending e-mail, doing schoolwork, editing photographs, managing a budget, and so on);
  
• the person or persons, if any, who introduced them to computers and/or helped with the event about which they are writing;
  
• the context of the events they are remembering (e.g., home, school, church, library, senior center, friend's or relative's home, and so on); and
  
• the effect this early experience had on their subsequent use of computers.
  

If you would like to contribute to "Earliest Memories of Computing," please contact Lewis Ulman at ulman.1@osu.edu.

My contribution follows in the next post. Enjoy!