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It would have been BASIC on a ZX80 which was a nasty little membrane keyboard thing you attached to the ariel socket on your TV. I was probably around 10-12 years old.

From there I taught myself Pascal which I had to boot up on 3.5" floppy disks on the Cannon XT PC running DOS that my dad had bought to help him do the invoicing for his business. During school holidays I would start programming about 11pm and go to bed at around 7am when my dad got up and kicked me out of his home office.