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I've played a lot of vintage games on my AT&T 6300, but the best one was Hack (successor to Rogue, and predecessor to NetHack.) I could spend hours on end drinking potions, reading scrolls, and fighting monsters. In the end, I usually failed in my quest to get the Amulet of Yendor. But I died...

My first introduction to computers was in the 1970s. I programmed in BASIC and assembler language on a PDP-8 and a PDP-11. In the 1980s, I was introduced to he VAX-11/780, learned to write code in FORTRAN, Pascal and C. Of course all, of these machines cost hundreds of thousands of dollars...