My first computer was a Mainframe.. I use to go to work with my dad on the weekends and the System staff would let me work on a terminal on the MainFrame after I debugged a Game they installed. My dad started bringing home a Terminal and at night I debugged other programs, not games.

I then got a Computer I built as a kit (I want to say it was a Tandy, but I seem to recall it had a different name on the box), hooked to an old TV Set we had (Black and White) and used a Tape Deck to store the data. I was keen on creating a Random Dungeon Creator using the DMG from Advanced D&D on Computer. We created images for all the types of halls and programmed the Random Generator. It worked great for about 75 to 100 generations, then ran out of resources and froze up. We changed the program so it did not save where you had been, which created a neat affect... if you turned around the hall you just left may not be the same.

ratscloset
aka John