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 ...

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.

My first computer was a Macintosh Plus, which was an all-in-one computer with a built-in black and white monitor. Then I moved up to an actual desktop PC, with a separate color monitor. Back then, ...

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 ...