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You and I both - first time I ever touched an IBM PC XT (in my Dad's office), I immediately fired up BASIC and went to town (had already been programming BASIC for 18 months by that time).

It was the first time I ever saw him just stare in awe at me like I was an alien's child! :)

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And me! (and a few hundred/thousand people in this great forum)!! Oh I still remember that Amstrad PC1512!!! What a carefree age that was...

I learned Locomotive Basic on a CPC464, then moved up to a PCW8256 before transitioning to a PC1512. Those were the days :)

I learned to core in C on a PC1512, using Walter Bright's rather nice Zortech C compiler. TP3 was indeed the dog's bollocks back then, too.

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