Technostalgia: Remembering our first computers | Ars Technica
Ars editors remember the computers that began their digital lives.
Being a bunch of technology journalists who make our living on the Web, we at Ars all have a fairly intimate relationship with computers dating back to our childhood—even if for some of us, that childhood is a bit more distant than others. And our technological careers and interests are at least partially shaped by the devices we started with.
So when Cyborgology's David Banks recently offered up an autobiography of himself based on the computing devices he grew up with, it started a conversation among us about our first computing experiences. And being the most (chronologically) senior of Ars' senior editors, the lot fell to me to pull these recollections together—since, in theory, I have the longest view of the bunch.
Considering the first computer I used was a Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-10, that theory is probably correct.
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