I grew up dirt poor, but scrapped together enough money that I bought a friend's old 286. (1995) I took a Pascal class, hacked a bit on my TI-85, but QBasic on

I grew up dirt poor, but scrapped together enough money that I bought a friend's old 286. (1995) I took a Pascal class, hacked a bit on my TI-85, but QBasic on that computer was the first place I did any programming of substance on my own. Even bought a QBasic book, the first programming book I ever owned.