Re: First computers . . .

["Deacon Blue" <scavenger@apexmail.com>]

> While reading about the bad-old-days of computing I came across the
statement
> that, "it is well known in the computer science field that programmers
tend to
> think of the first machine they ever used as being one of the most
interest-
> ing."  And I am curious, how many of you started out on an Apple II?
>

My first encounter with the Apple II-series was during secondary-school in
1982, over here in Norway.  Our local school had purchased 3-4 Apple II's,
and had just started giving it's first computer-classes.

Part of the course was an introduction to the LOGO- programming language,
and I vividly remember our effort in moving the grapic 'turtle'-cursor
around the screen after issuing angle, values and pixel-lengths.

best regards