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  • My family’s first computer was a 68k Mac, specifically a Quadra 605. I tried (and failed) to teach myself C++ using that system at the tender age of 9, but eventually moved over to Windows PCs. Had a Linux-based web server running on spare parts as a teen, though, and did succeed at teaching myself PHP and later Python well enough to hack together my very own blog software. Not very good blog software, mind you, but the critical thing was that it worked! Even spent a few years as and SMB sysadmin even though my degree is in [building] architecture.

    Since then I’ve drifted away from the very deep end of tech world, but I would never say that first Macintosh stunted my skill.

    (100% autistic tho, so ymmv)

  • Mac not being able to play any games forced me to mess around with other operating systems on it

  • 10 Print "BBC micro crew" 20 Print " I'm only dyslexic not autistic" 30 GOTO 10

  • back in the 80's, whole rooms of Apple Computers sat empty, all day, everyday. At all the different schools i went to as a child.

    I assume it's because none of the teachers wanted to learn them, it was real fucking shitty growing up surrounded by so many stupid fucks.

    but now, soon, AI will be x1000000000⁷ better teachers. So at least the children will have an actual chance in this world, and so many of them won't choose liberal arts as their course of studies. -all that time they were just disciplining the children

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