My Computer History

My first (and only) true programming class was learning to use BASIC on CBM32's at the high school. I was still in elementary school at the time. My father thought I would like the classes, or perhaps he thought he would like them and he brought me, but whatever, I began to learn BASIC.
Sometime thereafter, I received my first computer. It was the Timex-Sinclair 1000. It was very small, featured a membrane keyboard, and 2K onboard. We soon got the 16K expander module. I never had a printer for it. It used a tape recorder for storage. Data and code saved together. I also started to learn machine language on the TS1000.
Some years later my parents bought me the Commodore 64 for Christmas. I had the C64 for some years and also got into programming in assembly language for this.
While in High School, or maybe it was shortly after, I bought a Commodore Amiga 1000 from my sister. It featured a GUI reminiscent of the Mac, and an advanced BASIC programming language that did not use line numbers (wow!). I never got into assembly language with that.
After that, I had a used Macintosh (from my parents), then the first computer I ever bought new, an NEC Windows 98 Box. A few years later, I bought a Dell Windows XP (personal) box which I still have. And last fall, I got a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with Vista.
While I was living with my parents (up through the Amiga) I worked off and on on a program I called "Studenfinder," or "Classify". It was to be the premier teacher's organizer, scalable from a personal tool for a teacher to an academic institution enterprise-wide application. It tracked student personal information, grades, projects, classes, schedules, maintained calendars, and controlled access. Every now and then I still work on it. Of course... my parents have both retired in the meantime, so I'm not sure who would use it. Like my writing, my coding goals often exceed my... grasp.