Same, but mine was a Tandy 1000 SL/2. Taught myself DOS, BASIC, Turbo Pascal, some Assembler. Got a 1200bps modem and discovered BBSes, got a wardialer, disco

Same, but mine was a Tandy 1000 SL/2. Taught myself DOS, BASIC, Turbo Pascal, some Assembler. Got a 1200bps modem and discovered BBSes, got a wardialer, discovered an unsecured university dial-in and started learning the internet. There were no commercial ISPs back then and no web. It was all text-mode: gopher, archie and veronica, usenet, ftp. Finding text files of the old 2600 and Phreak magazines and the Anarchist's Cookbook felt so cool. Then I found MUDs and IRC. The T1000 could play all the hot games at the time, flight sims, Sierra adventure games, etc., with better graphics and sound than other computers. But there was just something special about playing a text-mode MUD with hundreds of other people from all over the world. That was an incredible experience as a teen.