Seven or eight years old (1977 or 78). It was a Commodore PET, on which I spent many happy hours typing out ASCII animations in BASIC of stick figures sword fig

Seven or eight years old (1977 or 78). It was a Commodore PET, on which I spent many happy hours typing out ASCII animations in BASIC of stick figures sword fighting each other. There were other computers in the house as far back as I can recall -- first one I remember was roughly the size of a mini-fridge and had removable disc drives the size of a pizza box; no idea what it was beyond that. Dad was what you might call an Early Adopter.