Before I even had a computer (begin 80s), my grandparents used to always bring me to a warehouse where they sold inventory from burnt down shops. Usually I woul

Before I even had a computer (begin 80s), my grandparents used to always bring me to a warehouse where they sold inventory from burnt down shops. Usually I would by soccer fan shirts (Ajax in my case at the time) and stuff, but this time, it was a specialist bookshop and I picked up a few computer books and magazines. This was so early in the computer era that I had never seen a computer magazine or book; I knew what computers were from the 2600 which my cousin had to play games on, but outside that I knew not very much. I read these things from cover to cover many (100 times possibly) times and always remember that when we did get our first computer, I opened my favorite one; it had the ISBN/author/publisher page and then page 1 was: Turn the computer on and type 10 PRINT "My first homecomputer program"<enter> RUN<enter> And the book continued like that. I really cannot remember at all what the book was called or for which homecomputer it was; I do remember that after a bunch of pages, the programs stopped working on my system with a syntax error. I think it maybe was a ZX Spectrum or so book, but it hardly can be as I think it was too early for that. It was the fastest way to get into it and got me deep into programming because it went so easy that I kept finding more and more.