"I remember buying my first computer in about 1984, " says technology writer Jonathan Margolis.

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My first computer lessons as a schoolkid were on a bulky old Apple crate.

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My first computer (bought in August 1986) was an Apple Mac Plus.

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My first computer was a Commodore 64 that I owned for 4 years before getting a Mac 512K, which lasted for longer than I can remember.

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My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20.

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My first computer was the Commodore 64.

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Like a lot of people my age, the first computer I ever used was an Apple IIe, back in elementary school, which was full of them.

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In fact, for the first few years, I barely left my computer.

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However, the theories underpinning software programming were extremely dense, and the difficulty I had with learning and understanding code led to my first moment of realization: perhaps the world of computer science was not for me.

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"Just sit at her computer and type for her, " my boss advised me with my first client, a private-high-school student.

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