>>"Good God, man, have I ever told you about the time I used to program an IBM
>>370 mainframe using punch cards?"
>Some of us started life toggling a paper tape loader in the front panel of a
>PDP-8...

I'm feeling positively baby-ish here -- I started by typing a program to compute the Fibonacci series into a time-sharing system with no monitor, just a teletype. :-)

Right after that, I switched to the TRS-80 Model I (before there was a Model II -- built-in 8.5" disk drives? Now _there's_ an advanced machine for you...)