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Am I the only Zoomer? I see a lot of "I remember"-type responses, so I have to wonder.

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[–] mcc@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Started with a Tandy 1000.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always coveted the Tandy 1000, but I never got one. Which one did you have?

[–] mcc@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

That was pretty early on for me so only remember a few details. Playing Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Sim was the main thing I did on it.

[–] 91x@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

'91 baby here that used a Toshiba T1000 back when I was in diapers.

The farthest back I can actually remember is a PowerMac G3 in school and a few Compaq machines at home running Windows 95.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Millennial here. Started on a garbage picked pentium 2 that I ran DOS on.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A computer is would be a good find in those days. Did you have to do much to get it running?

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

PSU and RAM had to be replaced. Garbage picked those too.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Starting my fourth decade on this rock. Distressingly pale... My boys are into trying to fix and upgrade the consoles & PC's they've grown up with, plus a couple old PowerPC G4 & G5 Macs I snatched up a few years ago, so we'll see where that goes.

[–] richard_merren@mastodon.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@CanadaPlus I'm 54. If you're into the generation markers, I'm a Gen X. We don't get your generation's jokes and we're totally comfortable with that.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wife bad? I'm sorry, are we being catty? Haha.

[–] Revclamjuice@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Xennial. Grew up memorizing phone numbers, using 1-800-COLLECT to get picked up from the mall, and typing basic programs from magazines into qbasic.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

I remember xp... Thanks about it

[–] nothingsacred@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was born in 1991. I do not know what that makes me... half dead maybe.😹

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Millennial, I'm pretty sure.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember when my own little Zoomer was born, so I can't help ya here.

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