My dad bought an MSX computer and some programming manuals when I was a young boy. I liked it more than him :) started with just typing over listings from the b

My dad bought an MSX computer and some programming manuals when I was a young boy. I liked it more than him :) started with just typing over listings from the books and magazines (that was common back then). Later on I started changing things and trying what would happen. And trying to make games do different things. And wrote quite some programs on my own, like simple games, but soon found what you could do with BASIC was quite limited. But it was kind of the only choice back then, apart from assembly. Somewhat after that I started learning some Z80 assembly from a little book of opcodes. Much later we got an MSX2, then an Atari ST, then finally a PC (286), man those were crappy compared to the ST :) I learned Pascal using Turbo Pascal, then C using Turbo C (Borland was big back then and everything was Turbo). Learned a lot from other BBS users and TXTfiles. I get very nostalgic when I think about these things.