Middle school early 1980's. BASIC in gifted class on a Tandy computer. I don't remember the model (it had an affixed CRT monitor). I was so impressed that I sav

Middle school early 1980's. BASIC in gifted class on a Tandy computer. I don't remember the model (it had an affixed CRT monitor). I was so impressed that I saved up all summer and bought a TSR-80 color which hooked to the television. I think it was like $180 which was all summers lawn mowing money. I was 13. It was awesome. I deviated into other fields and although I have been Linux enthusiast for a long time, finally came back to programming about 4 years ago, first as a hobby, then as people I knew needed some stuff that I knew I could write, professionally. I haven't looked back since (although I was making more money before... I really love programming and don't want to do anything else anymore... damn you TSR80!)