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When I was a kid, we got a Commodore 64. It was brand new. You couldn't even get a floppy drive for it yet, so we got the cassette deck. As soon as the floppy drive was available, we got one. I tried programming in basic when we got it. I just didn't have the patience to type for days for a colored circle to "bounce" across the screen. I learned a little bit of stuff on it, but it was mostly a game machine.

THen in college, I got a Tandy 1000TX which was a 286SX with 640k RAM and 16 color 320x200 graphics (Tandy had a midline between CGA and EGA, with CGA res, but EGA color). I never did get the 384k RAM upgrade for it. For Christmas, my parents upgraded it with a 32MB "hard card" (drive and drive controller on one card). I think I ended up upgrading the graphics with a VGA card w/1MB RAM. And then I bought the chips (yes, individual chips) and upgraded the RAM on the card to 2MB.

I realized that I was "into computers" but not into programming/coding. Now I do a little coding/scripting, but only the most basic stuff, and not much of it.