I didn't have my first personal computer until I was 30. It was a Sun 3 "dickless" workstation on my desk, POS. I gave it to my grad student and got a Mac II the next year.
I read a Fortran (66?) programming lesson book when I was 15, and wrote some programs on paper, but had no machine to try them on.
I wrote Basic on a dial-in (120 bps acoustic coupled) teletype (with paper tape for saving/restoring) at high school when I was 16 (1973).
I read a Fortran (66?) programming lesson book when I was 15, and wrote some programs on paper, but had no machine to try them on.
I wrote Basic on a dial-in (120 bps acoustic coupled) teletype (with paper tape for saving/restoring) at high school when I was 16 (1973).