OK, I'm a computer geek

I admit it. I got my first computer in 1982 (I think). I recall that the computer was over $1000, the floppy disk drive was $800 (and stored 88K), and memory was abut $150 for a 16 Kilobye module. The CPU speed was an incredible 1.5mHz. Pretty advanced for the day. Within two years I had taught myself how to program and wrote a program to keep track of my books (and later, my videocassette library). Over the years I dabbled in programming languages and learned BASIC, a smattering of C, Pascal, Forth, Modula 2, and several which I've forgotten about.

I quit programming when windowed environments appeared. It was just too much of a hassle, more time was spent fiddling with the code to generate the windows and fonts and such than was spent making it do useful work, and it just wasn't fun anymore.