I wrote my very first program using BASIC on an Apple II. My high school in Oregon bought two of them in 1979 (one for the math dept. and one for the business d

I wrote my very first program using BASIC on an Apple II. My high school in Oregon bought two of them in 1979 (one for the math dept. and one for the business dept.) and I was one of the few students who had a class in both classrooms during the day. The teachers would let us play on them after finishing our regular class assignments. Neither one had a hard drive so we had to store all our code on a 5 1/4" floppy. The teachers didn't know much of anything about programming, so us students basically self-taught ourselves how to do simple programming on them using the manual and stuff we read about in magazines.