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What was the first piece of software that you ever used? What version was it?

I'll start. As a young-'un (I'm 16), my first experience with a computer was first grade in elementary school. I used a drawing program called Kid Pix: Studio Deluxe. I grew so attached to the program, I became convinced that it was all computers could do. As I got older, I learned more about computers and became the totally computer-attached person I am today.
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socalsue | 2 years, 9 months ago
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I first worked with OS/8 on a DEC PDP-8 back in the 1970's in High School. I remember creating a paper-tape on the old teletype machine and then feeding it in to the system. In my first job, I used application programs on a PDP-10 running TOPS 10. My terminal was a VT52. First computer I ever wrote programs on was a PDP-11 running RSTS/e. My first language was Basic.

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buddawiggi | 2 years, 9 months ago
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I first used a TRS 80 Model 1 around 1981 and the first software I ever used was Lords of Karma a text adventure game, no picture. "go north", "go west" were common commands "you've encountered the knave" a common description of what was happening. Wow that was a long time ago. The game loaded on a regular audio cassette, I remember asking for a floppy disk interface for Christmas. Single density vs double density...,floppy disks, wow that was a long time ago.

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gtmurff | 2 years, 9 months ago
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Oregon Trail! Although, for some reason, I always died of dysentery.

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ssmacd | 2 years, 9 months ago
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Well the first software I ever used was related to keypunch cards and mainframes...but the first PC software I ever used was Visicalc. I don't know the rev, but it would have been around 1983.

You can actually play with Visicalc here: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

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bdegrande | 2 years, 9 months ago
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The Prisoner, by Edu-Ware, for the Apple ][.

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amdenson | 2 years, 9 months ago
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I had an old TI-99 and remember playing Tunnels of Doom. It was a graphical RPG that used a cartridge and tape to play. Your party was on a quest to find the King and his Orb and return to the surface. My friends would come over and take turns running through the levels trying to find everything. I think I still have the computer and game in a closet somewhere.

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dward | 2 years, 9 months ago
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DOS 3.0 something.

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geekmiser | 2 years, 9 months ago
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I'm an oldbie, too. First program I used was some drawing program on a Commodore Vic-20. Mmmm, "Load" "RUN" was the best. We had a cassette tape drive for saving data. I remember how fast my Dad kept saying it as and how impressed he was with it. I would paint super-blockey landscapes or USA Flags on the TV with it. I had a whole 16 colors to choose from. It rocked.

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lesszoa | 2 years, 9 months ago
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omg...

first "software" I used was PONG. :) circa 1975 - my best friend had it and she was the most popular girl in school because of it! We spilled kool-aid on it and I had to take it apart and clean it. It is what started me in becoming a geek. lol!

first computer software I used was "Curse of Ra" on the Commodore 64, circa 1983

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mikew03 | 2 years, 9 months ago
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First software I ever got was the text adventure game "Adventure" for the Apple ]in late 1979. I was annoyed because all the cool games were for theinteger basic but my parents knew the[+ was a better machine so that's what we got.

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ritzy | 2 years, 9 months ago
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Before the upsurge in home computers, there used to be plexi-glass topped tables in pubs that you put 10p in and could play bat n ball, or later space invaders. I dont remember playing bat n ball, but I was thoroughly addicted to space invaders.
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emberstarfireclan | 5 months ago
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I am 15. Mine was the same situation as N4thani, but in my case, it was at my grandmother's house on her second computer upstairs, which had no Internet connection(That and i was about 8 or 9, instead of in first grade). So in my case, to me, that was pretty much all it COULD do. But after a couple years of playing and making pictures, I ran in to a problem. The pictures i had saved had become messed up. The whole picture would be 'pushed' over into the lower right corner, that corner of the picture being cropped out. Soon after that, my uncle and aunt moved into my grandmother's house, and she boxed/gave away (but mostly just boxed) many things. It has been about 5 years now and i haven't seen my precious disc since.

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smartweb | 2 years, 9 months ago
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technically the first software i used was an atari game that hooked up to a friend's tv.

then it was an automated typewriter that you could program then let it retype your letter error-free (hopefully)

if you are talking computer, then it would have to be the operating system on a Dyanasty computer, which was a very early pc... you had to put in a cartridge that looked like an 8 track in the side of the computer before you turned it on and you had a choice of two... the operating system cartridge that would let you use cassette tape programs, or a word processor cartridge. you couldn't have both at the same time.

that was several years before MS-DOS even came out...

i started VERY young.
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gadgetenvy | 2 years, 9 months ago
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Ha, ha, my first software was VS Basic. That is Very Special Basic. It was supposed to be easier.
There was a teletype machine connected to the local college in my high school we got to use.
This was in 1975 or 1976, I have lost track of when.
As to the version, I have no idea.
I am offically old now. :)
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fallen_angel21 | 2 years, 9 months ago
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The first ever software I've encountered is Microsoft Office 95 (MS Word specifically)... I've just had my PC when I was in 3rd year High School. I'm a late bloomer when it comes to computers. XD
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hellcaretaker | 2 years, 9 months ago
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I used winamp
since i knew only this software at that time

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jaw7 | 2 years, 9 months ago
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My first software was WPS-DOS.
It was a Chinese word possessing software first appeared in 1988 and then became a must-have during early 1990s.
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fstopsurreal | 2 years, 9 months ago
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In late 1990, I purchased the Macintosh Classic, with a 9 inch monochrome screen for $1,100. The first software I loaded was KidPix ver.1 so my newborn daughter could develop her computer skills early. There was a screensaver game with meowing cats that she directed across the screen at age 1, which she remembers to this day, as an honors student at a major university liberal arts program.

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