My parents introduced me to computers when they bought me my first micro back in about 1983. Around the same time they took an evening course about computers t

My parents introduced me to computers when they bought me my first micro back in about 1983. Around the same time they took an evening course about computers themselves (including some amount of programming). I clearly remember my mum typing out the BASIC source code to a text adventure game from a book I bought some time in the late '80s (in the UK at least, it wasn't entirely uncommon for cheap games to be "distributed" in source code form in magazines and sometimes books). Years later my mum financed my first 16- and 32-bit computers, which I paid her back from a part-time job at a local bicycle shop. I've had a career as a programmer for around a decade now... Despite all this, I still resented the fact that I wasn't allowed to spend more time on the computer! I had two sisters who were also given time on the computer (they played a Frogger clone and taught themselves to type, mostly). The newspapers were (and to some extent still are) full of bullshit articles about the evils of "computer addiction" which my parents took seriously enough to limit the time I spent with them to only an hour or two a day. Now in retrospect, I realise that - compared to some others at least - I'm incredibly lucky. It doesn't stop my burning hatred for newspapers like the Daily Mail though...