Before you got your first computer did you see something on tv, movie or irl that you could not wait to do it yourself once you got your computer?

[Arcade]

For me it was in 2 occasions when my science teacher connected a thermometer to an apple II and the other one was when I saw the movie the net when Sandra Bullock ordered pizza online. Those 2 moments for me is what made me fall in love with computers. In 2005 or 2006 Dominos was the first place in my area that was taking orders online.

I just finished ordering an extra large half peperroni half sausage from papa johns.

 

[eyoungren]

Nope. I was aware of computers, but in 1980 my focus as a nine year old kid was on other stuff.

My dad simply walked in the door with a TRS-80 Color Computer and left it to me and my sister to figure out. He'd also gotten a couple of game cartridges, so we played those for a while. Eventually, I learned how to change the background color on the screen and a few things in BASIC.

It wasn't until 1984 when I got a Commodore 64 that I really started using computers.

 

[Herdfan]

Used a typewriter all through HS. Granted it was a nice one.

Got to college (Fall '84) and one of the guys on my floor's dad worked for IBM, so he had an IBM PC-XT with the 10 Meg Hard drive. That computer must have written half the papers on that floor that year.

Got home for summer and begged my parents for a computer. Any computer. Ended up with an identical setup, IBM PC-XT and an Okidata dot matrix printer. Whole setup in June '85, > $5K.

Added a color monitor before my senior year and it was still rockin' when I sold it to a fraternity brother after graduation in Spring '89. Bought a Dell 386, the 486 was out, but very expensive.

Moved over to Mac's in 2011.

 

[Nermal]

At the risk of echoing the other comments here, nope. I was born in 1983 and can't remember not having a computer. We had a C64, probably bought when I was about two or three.

Next came a PC-XT clone with a single (3.5"!) floppy drive and MS-DOS 3.3, circa 1989. This was followed by a 486 in 1992, and various other PCs until I bought my first Mac - an 800 MHz iBook - in 2003.

 

[jz0309]

No. I've been using computers since the early 80s so it is way too long ago to remember if I had seen anything on TV/movie that I wanted one
I guess that makes me (kinda) old

 

[BotchQue]

TV, movie, irl (whatever that is) no, but rather Keyboard magazine. I had been using a Zenith Z-100 at work for several years, then in '89 I finally bought an Atari Mega, because I was starting my master's degree, and it had a MIDI port built-in! It had a GUI interface like the expensive Apples, but a price like a PC; used it for eight years.
Had enough income by then to switch to Apple (Atari was out of business), and haven't looked back. Another twenty years of dreams of composing stellar soundtracks, but as of now neither Hans Zimmer nor Peter Gabriel have anything to worry about...

 

[goldmac2006]

👍 before I got my first iPad (that was my first device I owned) pre-2014, I wasn’t into Apple until I got my first Apple product. I didn’t even get to do photography until I got my first iPhone two years later with the 5s.