Age when you got your first PC

[GER_T4IGA]

Just wanted to know when you got your first PC. I built one for my parents when I was 12, 2 months ago (sorry if it sounds like I'm bragging, but I'm not).

got an old office laptop (I think HP) from my father at about an age of...

mum says 10 but I am sure it was earlier (and of course not selfbuilt )

played things like Age of empires or H. A. V. E. A. N. I. C. E. D. A. Y. or whatever that racing game with guns was called.

 

Edit: so that was at least 7 years ago.

[79 Potatoes]

House PC: when I was 2-3 years

My first own PC: 6 years

[Ceatra]

7... I think... Not sure...

[Lethal Seraph]

First family PC around 11. My very own was around 14. My first build was at 26.

[MrTiC]

I was 17 when i built me first PC, I am now 30 damn I feel old lol

I feel ya brah, i builded my first one in 2000

It had a P3 900Mhz with 128mb ram, A GeForce 2 MX400 32mb GPU and a whopping 20GB HDD

[SIGSEGV]

I feel ya brah, i builded my first one in 2000

It had a P3 900Mhz with 128mb ram, A GeForce 2 MX400 32mb GPU and a whopping 20GB HDD

0.0 20GB, what do you need all that space for!

[Castdeath97]

14 I guess, it was that crappy toshiba whom I still loathe up to this day.

[CalumGiff]

Just wanted to know when you got your first PC. I built one for my parents when I was 12, 2 months ago (sorry if it sounds like I'm bragging, but I'm not).

17 was the first PC i ever built and that was a few months ago. As for owning a PC probs around 11 years old

[Emanuel_M]

When I was 11 I made a core 2 quad gaming machine

[MrTiC]

0.0 20GB, what do you need all that space for!

i was 13/14 back then ... 1 word puberty also had a 19inch iyama CRT

[fredghostkyle]

8. Shitty old E Machine laptop thingie that let me check email and a few old games. It was a good start, I was always hooked on computer

[EpicAdom]

I got my first laptop when I was 10. I'm gonna do a desktop build later this week  (I'm 15)

[flibberdipper]

If I want to be technical, 5-ish, since my dad and I built our infamous "kitchen computer" together, even though it wasn't all mine. My first was my grandma's old eMachines with a 600MHz Celly when I was 10. I want to say it was the 600i or something like that.

[Tactic Alpha]

I got a really old dell from my dad at like 7, then a slight less old Acer a year later, which we had to bolt the display back onto a few times, from my sister,  then I finally got a new laptop (Acer Aspire E something), which wasn't a hand me down at like 9 which I had for 3 years, then I got a refurbished Lenovo u530 (which I still use) and I built a gaming computer at 12 (a few months ago).

[lol1290]

So after 35 pages of replyes of ages when someone build his first PC, can someone calculate me the average age? I would say its between 13-16. (please quote me, if you answear). Thank you (:

[isaksjoo]

I was 13, i'm soon 14 years old

[sgloux3470]

Very first PC was when  I was 10.  Got a second prebuilt when I was around 13 or so that had a much better video card in it.

 

Didn't build my first PC until I was 16 though.

 

It had a Q6600 and an ATI 4850.

[TwOne]

Got my first PC at the age of 8 (HP Vectra XE310 Series 2). First upgrade I did personally was at age 16 (added a graphics card to one of my old systems), and I have yet to build my own PC from scratch at 17.

[AnnoyedShelf]

My own PC? I was 3 years old.  Ran Windows 95 and played tons of games on it.

 

EDIT: it was some IBM PC, can't remember what model.

[brickster]

Got my first PC when I was 5 (an old compaq 50gb hard drive 2gb ram and a pentuim 2) build my first one at 12 (current rig)

[rickey1990]

when i was younger, im only 25 now, But i went down the line of electronics, Engineering and robotics then welding,fabrication and metal work, My first job was hand soldering processors on to computer motherboards with a soldering iron and a magnifying glass, then the company i worked for brought a machine to do the job when i was 17, programming was done in machine code, binary 01000100101001010 and hexadecimal, Logic gates. and code which is now obsolete.

 

But my point is i had to co-interview fresh faced uni students who had many degrees in all these amazing qualifications, software side there better at the new stuff. but technology is becoming ever more assessable, parts are designed to be very functional and easy to use, almost plug and play. The moral of this story is no ones better than anyone else just because they built a computer when they were the youngest, especially at a time were its actually possible to build them cheaply, second moral, listen to your elders .

[techetga]

12(2 years ago), one for my grandma. I had to go there every week so I told her that I could built her computer. Of course this wasn't gonna be a PC for basic use but for gaming. She didn't knew shit about computers so I told her 500 euros was a good price. She bought all the parts and I put it together(I have to say that it was pretty easy). Nowadays I'm repairing iPhone screens, about the same thing as building a PC but more precise. I make $20 every screen I replace what takes about an hour. It's a lot more my friends make at the supermarket.

[nicholician]

Just a few months ago, I was 16

[mrswagbhinav]

I'll get one when I'm 14

[IAMSWIFT1]

I got mine when I was 10,3770 and a 7570