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Right on! My first micro had Z80 on an S100 bus machine. There was no clock, so I put one together on an S100 scratch board - my first and last venture into hardware!
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It was a toss-up between PL/I or COBOL running on networked CP/M machines. Having experienced COBOL at university I decided to try something different when it came to work (recently created IT department where the junior programmer got to choose the development tools). It served us very well for a long time (well, 3 years or so) until the IBM PC's came along. I do miss using WordStar as an editor; it was the only way of editing files larger than 32k (if I recall correctly).
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Though strictly speaking it was AutoLisp via AutoCAD. But later Common Lisp and then Scheme really made me "love" to program just for the sake of programming. They're still my 1st joyous language group, and I've worked on many from C++ through Java, Delphi, C#, F#, Python, etc.
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It was an amazing experience while I created my first windows form application with buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons by just drag-n-drop the controls on the window form! 
Regards,
DD
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I had the same feeling
Except it was with VB 5
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Regards,
DD
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I remember being blown away by VB 1.0. That was the first IDE to offer such a simple development model. Shame the language was a bit limited.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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<star wars="" music="" please="">
Years and years ago in a city far away from where I do live...
I saw in a trade fair were my parents took me a place with several computers showing a calculus program for small children in classroom... it was a black and green Hercules display, with some big numbers drawn and the user had to give a good answer to the proposed calculation.
After being for a while in front of those computers with my mouth open the salesman saw me and made me happy by putting me in front of one of those computers. I spent there a lot of time till my parents "asked" me to leave... 
After that I started in an academy learning MSDOS, afterwards GWBASIC, then DBASE III and IV, Lotus 123 and C...
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This is back in 1973, We wrote our programs on paper, and then punched them out on tape, and ran them on a tape reader that used a modem to connect to a main frame, and our results typed back out.
So we had to take two elective classes in Junior High, and it was the computer class and wood shop.
I should of took the metal shop instead of wood shop.
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Actually started with BASIC on a TRS-80 model I... and moved to assembly language to add a rudimentary BATCH file type implementation for the same computer on the 4- 5 1/4" floppy disks my father expanded the computer to.
My original programs where on audio tapes!
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BASIC - Briskly Achieve Solutions Impossible in C
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I started programming with VBA. When VBA wasn't good enough to manipulate data, i start learning SQL. Then C++, VB.NET and C#.
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64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
With to much Peaks/Pokes and Goto's
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I forgot about Commodore and Atari...
Old good times 
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I had the Commodore VIC20 (3.5k free RAM) before the C64, then the Amiga A500 - Happy days!
Amazing what you could do with so few resources, kids don't know they're born these days! 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Yes. Peek and poke to create and move sprites and play sounds.
I was incredibly proud of the sound effect creation program I wrote, which let you graphically adjust all parameters on all three sound channels to create different sounds.
I actually did my first paid programming gig on a C64 - a night club wanted to have fake airport departure terminals for a themed evening, and I wrote it in BASIC in a day.
Good times.
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Oh yes!!! C64, then C128 then Amiga 1000 then Amiga 2000 then DBase III plus (there was no DBase II) then C, C++, Visual Basic..... C#.
Those were nice times when computation for persons was starting.
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There was a dBASE II, my first assignment was to upgrade a CP/M dBASE II 'program' see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton-Tate#Early_history:_dBASE_II_.281981.E2.80.931983.29
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You are right!. My mistake. There was NOT a DBase I (one). Ashton-Tate decided to name it II to suggest it was a more finished product.
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I was in college. It was my junior year, I had to declare a major. In the prior two years, I only had 2 "A" grades... studio art, and C++. It took me about 5 minutes to decide C++ would provide a better job.
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For all those C developers both past and present I wonder how many of them would take kindly to hearing that C is a simple language?
Especially considering that so many other languages have their dependencies on the C language (Java) in order to execute.
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ATARI BASIC, on an Atari 400 with 16KB of RAM!
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