Oh the glory days of software, when no one owned anything and all that was required to use it was that you shared any improvements. I myself started on a Commodore 64 programming a little bouncing ball. Though I’m far younger than most here. I saw the Commodore at a yard sale and had to have it. It’s amazing how many hours I’d waste just typing in numbers to get the right colors…
I cant remember the first programming I ever did but I suspect it was in LOGO and BASIC most likely. The first serious programming I did was in Turbo Pascal and these days I use C and C++ for most of my work. Mostly x86 PC clones in our house although there was one Olivetti that may not have been a PC. Oh and one of the old BW mac laptops at one point.
Primary school had some old BBC Microcomputers IIRC, the high school had macs and PCs with the macs being progressively replaced by PCs.
I remember I first started programming on apple computers in junior high school trying to create text games like zork. It was horribly written, slow, painful, and only I played them so I knew all the answers. I keep trying to relive those days by playing games like Avatar IV, but those games are not even fun anymore (just down right painful) Now I am running a text adventure game company - http://www.ironrealms.com - and loving every second of it.
I remember I made a game I called “contakliks”, it’s only porpose was to encounter two persons and see who was the faster at clicking the mouse left button in 10 secs, using VB.NET 2008. I really enjoyed seeing my classmates playing it, and I used to updated it, nowadays I left it behind. But it was cool to create that simple game, even when I don’t like programming for games. Maybe I didn’t experienced old softwares, but, the process it’s almost similar.