ZenMasterChip

Computer Background: At 16, high school offered me an opportunity to learn about computers at an insurance company. It was one massive room with reel-to-reel tape drives and punch card readers. My first language was Autocode!
Attending a free Two-year college, I finagled three years by *not* completing my degree and spent a lot of time learning APL (a programming language) at a terminal connected to our 'sister' college. I had access to an HP Plotter and made some of the first computer ART. (I wish I had kept it.) This was my introduction to machine language, where the lab assistant and I worked on programming code to crash the machine when the labs were filled with students so we could get our CPU time: CPUEatTime. My hat was gray in those days, later to become lily white!

After graduating with no useful degree, I worked odd jobs until I got my life in order, married, and became a Metrologist (degree in the Metrics of Measurement). While in school, my first computers were the Ti99/4, Timex Sinclair, and Commodore64. I had part-time work access to a DOS machine, which was my introduction.
I primarily worked with machine coding and various languages I've forgotten. Around this time, I developed my motto, "I've forgotten more than I currently know." Longer story short... I'm a science fiction and Fantasy fan, LARPer, Renaissance man, Writer, novels & stories, and a coder, guitar & other musical instrument amateur player. I made my career as a civilian with government contractors at N.I.S.T., DoD, NASA & Nuclear Power companies working with Primary Standards.