I started on a Commodore PET 2001 in 1978, and wrote a horse racing game for my parents. Three horses, ASCII characters randomly going across the screen 0,1 or

I started on a Commodore PET 2001 in 1978, and wrote a horse racing game for my parents. Three horses, ASCII characters randomly going across the screen 0,1 or 2 spaces. Odds at the start and payoff calculated at the finish. My parents loved it! (OTB and racetrack fans). I then went on to a Vic-20 (1981), Amiga 1000 (1985) and eventually a 386 PC, a PowerMac PC (I got minix or other variant running on it), and then Linux, Mac, and PCs thereafter. The Basic Stamp in 1997 really brought back old coding to me with the addition of hardware tinkering. My fondest memories are the horse racing game, and plotting the 4 main moons of Jupiter on my Vic-20's thermal printer. Figuring out how to program those two programs started me on coding. Funny, I have always coded, but only as an employed coder for two years at one job. I program for myself, and when I can for work when needed (mainly technical computing).