First was an IBM mainframe at Mærsk, circa 1978 Second was an Olivetti BASIC workstation (not listed on Wikipedia!) at Bang & Olufsen, circa 1979 The real tim

First was an IBM mainframe at Mærsk, circa 1978 Second was an Olivetti BASIC workstation (not listed on Wikipedia!) at Bang & Olufsen, circa 1979 The real time sink arrived with a Nascom 2 kit [1] (to be soldered) circa 1982. Later a Commodore 64 which had the curse of great games and thus didn't encourage programming as much. I'm glad I started with a computer where the entertainment was getting it to do something and I feel sorry that kids today miss out on the wonder of the whole thing. [1] http://nascomhomepage.com http://nascomhomepage.com