My very first program, in BBC Basic, was for work, drawing a graph of some kind of lab instrument data interfaced via the analogue port. That was 1989 or 1990,

My very first program, in BBC Basic, was for work, drawing a graph of some kind of lab instrument data interfaced via the analogue port. That was 1989 or 1990, and I didn't do any programming again for at least a year or two until learning Fortran at university.