Cut my programming teeth on QBASIC...Well, actually BASICA on the IBM PC before that. Still got my "101 BASIC Games" book on a shelf here somewhere, very tatte

Cut my programming teeth on QBASIC...Well, actually BASICA on the IBM PC before that. Still got my "101 BASIC Games" book on a shelf here somewhere, very tattered and dog eared. My personal favourite though, was creating 'look alike' apps of existing accounting and database system that ran on the IBM XT's in the offices I interned at back in the day, with fake but world ending error messages that would pop up when the operator tried to select menu options or fill in fields. (This was the days of "War Games" too, so it was fun to see a receptionist freak out when she saw a "Connected to NORAD - Commencing missile launch sequence in 10... 9... 8...")