@sampullara Started with the Vic 20 age 7. C64 from 6th grade. Ran a BBS I customized myself on the C128 in high school. Also used it for college. Today I get confused picking iPhone cases.

@jwfbean Shockingly similar. Wrote my own terminal program in 7th/8th and ran a customized ACE (?) BBS in high school.

@sampullara peek & poke!

@peteryared and sys!

@sampullara vic-20 ftw

@sampullara @hacks4pancakes Can confirm

@sampullara @hacks4pancakes Exactly. If my phone booted into a JS console I bet my 4 year old would be writing code by now.

@sampullara @hacks4pancakes I started at 16 in 1981 (apple ][+)

@sampullara @hacks4pancakes i wrote my first code on a commadore 64 dont remember how old 14 maybe 15 something like that.

@sampullara Early PC's would boot to a BASICA environment when there was no boot floppy or device. I'd give my kid my old PC every time I got a new one (every two years) since they were 10. Later I'd take them apart first and we'd re-build them together ;) good times.

@sampullara A kid can wrap his head around 64k of RAM, BASIC and a cassette drive. Harder to be quickly effective with today’s stuff.