I learned how to program at school in 1973, when I was 17 on a machine similar to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_9800_series#Second_generation https

I learned how to program at school in 1973, when I was 17 on a machine similar to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_9800_series#Second_generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_9800_series#Second_generati... It may seems a toy, but it was not, it had 8K bytes. It was a time where big computers in France had 128K bytes RAM. What is astonishing is that it was in Vannes, a small town in Brittany, in the west part of France. I often wonder how the Math teacher was able to get such a computer in his school.