>>I was older. About 24 and it was a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack. Learned how to program in BASIC on my own.

>For me it was a Commodor 64. It was actually a gift to my wife. I just played games on it. Then I noticed in the manual that you could make it do things yourself. So I tried it and got a real kick when they worked.

May/June '83... what will come first: our second child, or the ZX Spectrum? Eventually, human beat the machine by two weeks, even though she was a dozen days late. Smuggling wasn't easy in those years.