> The idea of ordinary people buying a computer and programming it to do useful things was one. First program I ever wrote (I was a kid) was a program to help

> The idea of ordinary people buying a computer and programming it to do useful things was one. First program I ever wrote (I was a kid) was a program to help my mum manage the household accounts, it even loaded and saved data to a cassette. Bless her she used it - it had to be multiple times slower than just doing it in her notebook (paper not computer, this was the 80's). Even then a couple of things became obvious, I was gonna be a programmer and I was more inclined to solving practical problems than games.