*Being introduced to computers by a friend of mine through playing wumpus and startrek on a CDC/11784 mainframe
* Saving up for my Apple ][+ (don't hate at me guys)
* Enjoying that wumpus game so much that I played it exhaustively on a TTY and brought the print out home to write the code from scratch in Apple BASIC so I could play it at home
* Taking a Fortran IV programming class using punch cards at the local university... while I was in the 8th grade (had a great science teacher who encouraged me to try)
* Seeing the Amiga 1000 for the first time in this guy's basement (before he even opened his computer store) and joking that they misspelled Commodore (they left out an "m") in the copyright string. But being blown away by what it could do
* Buying my first A1000
* Writing my first C program on that A1000 swapping floppies back and forth to get it to compile
