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What was your first computer?
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Mine was the Apple II Europlus. Bought it in 1979. Loved that thing.
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I grew up without any sort of home computer. Still went to school for computer graphics and 3D animation, taught myself programming in the computer lab in the evenings. Only after getting my degree did I get my first computer. I've been a professional developer for the last 15ish years.
I did have access to school computers most of my life. My first memory was learning LOGO on an Apple II in elementary school. Making that turtle draw fractals. Good times.
One of the things I remember shocking me in first year computer science was the number of people with zero home computer experience. Like they were raw dogging their college course basically.
Obviously this was a long time ago when computers were very expensive compared to today (and people here were poorer).