Hmm... as a kid, I had an 8086 with DOS, GWBASIC and a white manual for both. Nothing magical came out of it :) , my best creation was a "Copa America" text-bas

Hmm... as a kid, I had an 8086 with DOS, GWBASIC and a white manual for both. Nothing magical came out of it :) , my best creation was a "Copa America" text-based game, full of GOTOs. I still program in (Visual) Basic (6 and .NET) 20 years later :P though I try not to, and I swore when I finished university that I wouldn't do it again - when my boss told me to, I caved pretty fast :)