Started with a Portable my dad brought home from work. It had a modem, which back then was a cradle for putting the handset in. There was no screen, it had a thermal tape that printed onto paper like a typewriter. Someone had programmed a D&D type adventure game, and I was hooked. Got a Commodore Vic 20 and hooked it to my TV (It had 4 kilobytes RAM). Had to program anything. I remember magazines would come out with code you could type in. I programmed my own game in BASIC like Zork. Then to Commodore 64, to Amiga, the MAC, and finally to PC. Poser for 3 years. I will be 36 in March. I can only add that I live in Columbus, Ohio, home of The Ohio State University, where Charles Csuri basically invented computer graphics with a 1 million dollar grant from the government. He had played football here and went to war and came back and started doing graphics with punch cards. The grad graphics school is called ACCAD, and Mr. Csuri still works there to this day and you can see some of his original work hanging in the halls there. Some of my instructors for graphics at OSU now work at Pixar, ILM, and Pacific Data Images.