Hi, my name is Niels, I'm English and well into my 60s.

First encounter with computers was DEC PDP-11 running Basic & saving progs to paper tape attached to a Teletype device to dabble at silly progs.

When most Badscappers weren't even a gleam in their mother's eye, probably.


First 'puter (!?) was a Trash-80 clone called a Video Genie, running Basic w. cassette tape drive.

Continued a "career" as a chem research lab tech until I took a free 6-week Cobol progging course & the next 20 years was as a Prog or Anal. prog,...