How old were you when you got your first computer?
Raplh: I didn't have my first personal computer until I was 30.  It was a Sun 3 "dickless" workstation on my desk, POS.  I gave it to my grad student and got a Mac II the next year.I read a Fortran (66?) programming lesson book when I was 15, and wrote some programs on paper, but had no machine to try them on.I wrote Basic on a dial-in (120 bps acoustic coupled) teletype (with paper tape for saving/restoring) at high school when I was 16 (1973).