Lorbing a little bit as it may take a while until an occasion pops up again. I encountered my first computer somewhere in '87 - '88 or something (1987 - 88 tha

Lorbing a little bit as it may take a while until an occasion pops up again. I encountered my first computer somewhere in '87 - '88 or something (1987 - 88 that is), it was one of these: http://retroit.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/hc-85-maro-678x381.jpg http://retroit.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/hc-85-maro-678x... The gymnasium school I was attending at the time had one (and only one) of these provided by the communist state for educational purposes. The price at the time was prohibitive, about 10x the average salary and that without a floppy disk. Floppy would set you back another 10 salaries. But price tags were fairly pointless anyways, you couldn't get one even if you had the money because like cars, they weren't readily available. You'd sign up for a car and get it in maybe 5 years, with computers it was pretty much the same unless you had "relations" and used "lubricant". When my father bought the expensive cassette radio player that broke after several months he didn't pay for it as much with money as with a pair of these: https://frankfurt.apollo.olxcdn.com/v1/files/bnwivc6doz733-RO/image;s=480x640 https://frankfurt.apollo.olxcdn.com/v1/files/bnwivc6doz733-R... . Literally with cheese, not slang "cheese". Which even today are freaking expensive, back then were basically impossible to get unless ... Well anyhow, I had attended various "school clubs" which promised to be slightly more interesting than the "math club" but they were all short lived, having been started by temp teachers who happened to be assigned to the school, worked in my village school for a year at most then took off. So imagine my excitement when the school's director and math teacher called volunteers for a computer science club. I joined along with many others and the day came when thing got started. A TV got brought in along with the marvel, looking through manuals and manually turning knobs and revolving potentiometers we finally saw the "I.C.E Felix - H.C. 85" (Intreprinderea (de) Calculatoare Electronice Felix - Home Computer 85) message appearing on the screen ... and... it was at that point that the director realized he didn't knew anything more about using a computer. Power up, hook it up and ... that was it :) Talk about "I didn't thought this through" :D Frantically trying to figure out something he told us he's going to sign up for a computer science course and will resume the informatics club, left us kids with the computer for the rest of the class then closed the door of the laboratory never to open again :) It did however prompt an interest in computers on my side, bought a book about them and didn't understood a single word, it was different from math. Eventually once I finished gymnasium I went for computer science class at the toughest high school in the county (informatics class being the toughest in high school of course) and my math club attendance (held by the very same gymnasium director) did help me in passing the cut-throat admission exam. 30 years later here I am, making a good living out of programming computers.