Lots of late 30's/early 40-something Brits in this sub thread I think :D BBC Micro was the first computer I ever used, in 1986 upon entering primary school. I

Lots of late 30's/early 40-something Brits in this sub thread I think :D BBC Micro was the first computer I ever used, in 1986 upon entering primary school. I remember learning DART and programing the turtle to move around using LOGO (we actually had a physical version too from what I remember). My elderly year 1 primary school teacher disliked the computer, however, and told us we needed to spend the time learning to write in pen because "we wouldn't be able to carry a computer on our back for the rest of our lives"! My parents soon bought an Acorn A3000 (32bit home computing in 1988!) and I would type out BASIC programs from books from the library and then later edit them to discover I could do my own programming. I don't think there was any free/open source (what we used to call 'shareware') WIMP tools so being about 10 years old my programming was strictly relegated to BASIC as that's all we had. I'm a bit depressed to think that Margaret Thatcher had a direct impact on my career in tech, however :/