Well I learned on a TRS-80 (Thats trash 80 for you youngsters), before that it was a 8051 micro in machine language. The 8051's are still around and in use today, sadly the TRS-80 is not . When I finally moved up to a C-64 I thought I was in heaven, fast, and it had color!

Built my first modem, all 300 baud of it, by hand from a book (parts from RadioShack, too bad they suck now).

Of course, seeing as how WILL is retiring soon, I'm sure he will post something about building his first computer out of some transistors and a coffee can. He might even have been around when the transisitors were optional (can't find the plans for that one anymore either I'm sad to say).

Elevator Madness was my first app on the C-64. 4 days of typing and debugging, just to play a game. If you screwed up and had to re-boot (for those of us that didn't have tape drives) you had to start all over again. Those were the days!