Same year, 78'ish, my Dad takes me to his associates new office, where his assistant has just unpacked the brand new Commodore Pet. "We have no idea what to do with it, we just know we need it", says the associate.

I spend the afternoon unattended making pictures with PETSCII and poking around the user interface, which I remember as being difficult, and the very first time I encountered BASIC.

Been programming ever since. Literally still got almost every machine I ever hacked on in between now and then, also. ;)