What did I start on? I'm not sure I remember. It was either my 3rd grade math teacher's Atari 800, or my uncle's ZX-81 (later known as the Timex Sinclair 2000). I became a "hard core" programmer with my very own C-64 (which my dad technophobically was opposed to buying for me). Either way, I learned my chops in BASIC with line numbers. Later on, I was mildly freaked by the concept of programming without line numbers. I still can't quite grasp object-oriented stuff fully.