[JavaBrewer]

I learned BASIC in middle school on a teletype connected to UCSB. We input our programs that were batched and run overnight. Got our results the next day. In HS we had PET computers that we programmed with BASIC and saved to audio cassette. Heck even in college (SBCC and SDSU) we used terminals connected school mainframes.

My first home computer was an Apple II in 1980 that a neighbor loaned to me. Had it for 6 months or so. Then it was a Toshiba T1200 that Dad got on trade and handed over to me. I didn't start programming until I got a 286 CPU PC and used Turbo Pascal. From then on it was all PC based systems until 2007 or so when I switched to Mac.