Neither of my parents were programmers. However my Dad did buy me a Vic-20 and a Commodore-64 which is where I started to program in Basic. I have a few compute

Neither of my parents were programmers. However my Dad did buy me a Vic-20 and a Commodore-64 which is where I started to program in Basic. I have a few computers after that, but when I was 17 my Grandmother loaded me $300 so I could buy a Pentium Motherboard and processor so I could run the new Borland Turbo C++ compilers. My 486 wasn't cutting it :-)