I started by borrowing my mom's login for the HP2000 at the local college when I was 9 (that's 1976). Amazingly, the college let me take Fortran and PL/I classe

I started by borrowing my mom's login for the HP2000 at the local college when I was 9 (that's 1976). Amazingly, the college let me take Fortran and PL/I classes for real. Other than that, was self-taught through high school, then got a CS degree at CMU and paid attention to at least some of the classes. As for why...what on earth is more fun than coding?! (edit: I see there's an HP laptop called the HP 2000. I mean this one: http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=411 http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=411)