An Atari 800 in 1983, waiting for over an hour and praying that things would load on cassette tape!

Atari video game. I think mine pre-dated the famous Atari 64. I still have it, with a box full of games, and it still works.

In 1978 (I think) I took a summer school class at a neighboring district (ours certainly didn't have such things) to learn Basic on an Apple IIc.

In 1979 (I think) my parents bought me an Apple IIe. I used it all the way up through 1992 as a glorified word processor. I remember that it actually had an amazingly good printer for its time! What technology was that? Not dot-matrix, something else. A very early inkjet maybe. Of course that was before WYSIWYG, so getting the word processor to do anything like subscripts, bold, italic, double-space, etc. was a tricky business requiring special codes and a cheat sheet.

Of course it also had such great games to play on its creamed-spinach screen as Space Quarks and Lemonade! What fun! I also had a text-based game of Hitchhiker's Guide. I never got very far. I got on the Vogon ship and kept getting killed by bad poetry.

Mom bought herself a 286 sometime circa 1988 or so. My favorite game: Leisure Suit Larry. Remember him? :D I inherited that computer in 93 when they got a new 386. By then it had been upgraded to have 5K RAM and a whompin' 20 MB hard drive!

My hubby's first computer was a Timex Sinclair. He still has it, too.

Bally Astrocade was our first game system in probably 1981 or so. Commodore 64 in about 1985 was our first computer.

I vaguely remember playing Pong on a small console in the mid seventies, I think? My best friend in elementary school had it. I seem to recall we became bored by it, and probably moved on to more interesting things, like swimming in her indoor pool and hanging out in her swanky kitchen making peanut butter sandwiches.

Fast forward to 1982 and a FORTRAN class my junior year in HS. I never did get any of my programs to do what they were supposed to do. We worked on IBM typewriter-like plotters hooked up to a mainframe, which was a whole room full of big cabinet looking things.

Now that I'm learning HTML and actually reading through the code to figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong, I can understand what my teacher was seeing when he read through my pathetic attempts at writing FORTRAN. It used to absolutely amaze me! But I think I'm starting to get it now--it basically boils down to 'finish what you start.'

Atari 2600. Commodore VIC 20. Packard Bell 1gb. Compaq Presario 5000. Gateway GT5220 20gb. Currently HP s5220y 600gb.

Wow... Doesn't make me any younger !

First video game ATARI 2600

I discovered programming and BASIC with a Sinclair ZX81 on Christmas 1983. After that I went to a Spectrum, then Commodore PET, Vic 20, C64 then PC and Macintoch

Right now, on PC Core i7 6 GB RAM Win7 Pro. I stopped counting after 2 TB of disk capacity.

And as of now... Programming is not fun anymore, it's a job