Probably too young for punch-cards also, but I also don't care how it was. I started in school with Apple IIe, not very much I was allowed to do and actually did. (In a bit I'm going to share an "emulation" of a game that I liked playing way back then on that computer.) Then I received as gift a Radio Shack TRS-80 (later Tandy) Color Computer 2 without Extended BASIC. Later I bought a cassette recorder to save and load programs. "Extended Basic" model was more expensive but offered up to 256x192 in two colors, which looked like four in some games that took advantage of raster faults on the old glass rounded CRT monitors and televisions all over the place in the 1980's.
Got ahold of COBOL only in about three months of "community" college LOL. Loved those control-breaks, thought it was the PC keyboard combination. :/
Got ahold of COBOL only in about three months of "community" college LOL. Loved those control-breaks, thought it was the PC keyboard combination. :/