I was 8 or 9 or so and we were at a point where we were well-off and had a TRS-Model 3 in the house, which was inconceivable at the time.It was a horrendously expensive and beefy machine.
My mother was taking some college courses involving COBOL and Fortran. I jumped on COBOL and helped her with her homework. I later dabbled with BASIC, Pascal, and C like others my age.
This is what sparked me on computers. Before that, I worked on building, listening, and transmitting on radios with my grandfather.
I got started on "UNIX" programming on my Amiga 500 running MINIX (I had at least 3 floppy drives (no hard disk at all), but still did a ton of floppy swapping).
My mother was taking some college courses involving COBOL and Fortran. I jumped on COBOL and helped her with her homework. I later dabbled with BASIC, Pascal, and C like others my age.
This is what sparked me on computers. Before that, I worked on building, listening, and transmitting on radios with my grandfather.
I got started on "UNIX" programming on my Amiga 500 running MINIX (I had at least 3 floppy drives (no hard disk at all), but still did a ton of floppy swapping).