We didn't even have internet by this time, about the early 1990's, which was installed later in 1994 at my parent's house, when i was already operating Cubase Audio (4 Stereo tracks!) via mouse and keyboard in Windows, on Intel 486 or early pentium (75 or 90 mHz) CPU. 30 years...
I used Cubase on the Atari. MIDI only though... a different era.
Same here, but in the Studio where i was working at that time, they were using Emagic. For mastering we used Pro Tools on a Mac.
My first computer was a C64-II, however, this was where i was first encountering desktop environments (GEOS) long before windows, but i didn't know about Macintosh by that time at all. I collected punch cards in my pre school age, and when i went to school later, i was visiting my dad after school in the datacenter, where i got embraced by the sound of IBM's mainframe computers while staring at walls full of tape machines spinning back and forth, back and forth...
First PC was a sinclair ZX81 (If you could call it a PC}. Ridiculous membrane keyboard and 1K RAM. You could get a 16K RAM expansion pack which plugged in the back but would often glitch when you pressed too hard on the keyboard.
For recording your programs you needed to use a conventional cassette recorder and tune the volume to the programs you would write. Awful in so many ways but was a lot of fun for a while.
AFAIR these things where called "home computers" back then? IBM has born the "Personal Computer" term later, if i'm not wrong.
In this era it was Commodore 64 vs. Schneider CPC in my area. We were three kids with computers at age 12, in one classroom. Extremely lucky, only one older kid with a computer two grades higher.
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