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1978 for me. I took up the trade because I wasn't required to talk to people that annoy me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: to talk to people that annoy me.
Little did you know then that you'd be an active participant of CP. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ditto, except I found out that stupid has no boundaries or limitations...
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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But you get to cuss at compilers and machines because they do what you instruct rather than what you want!And shooting com[puteers isn't illegal.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I've usually been on the anoyying end of things,
I usually laugh at people who annoy me, but that appears to be more annoying than ignoring them.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The first computer I laid my hands on was a Sinclair ZX81 (black and white), I was fascinated and got hooked on Basic programming. Did not think I would be doing this as a profession later on in life, evolved from Basic to VB, VB.NET and finally C#.
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I went the same path but started with a commodore 64 and went via SuperBase before I got into VB.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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SuperBase rings a bell with me, I had that on my Atari 1040ST but never did anything useful with it.
Later on I thought DbaseIII+ was more interesting because of job opportunities, and to my amazement I got a job as a database programmer pretty quick !
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Guess that's why I never had a Commodore 
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When: Sometimes in 1981,82,83-ish (sinclair, Apple II...). and after that, university by the start of the 90's
Why: Because it was supposed to be the thing of the future, and I (well, my parents helped a bit) had to start learning it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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When: 1983-4.
Why: Because you can't do much else with a Commodore 64, its programming manual and a tape drive.
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When? Back in the late '70s at University.
Why? "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: with no heavy lifting
Unless you had one of those "boat anchor" portable computers.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Hah! In those days you needed a crane to change the disk!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I remember the Kaypro!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Kaypro
Yes! And the Osborne!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The Osborn was portable. If you had a forklift. 
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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1984 if I remember well. A fantastic ZX Spectrum 48K. BASIC, Forth and Assembly.
Why? Fashinated by videogames!
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When: Spring 1980
Why: Because it was interesting (it became less interesting in college later that year because they used [time shared] mainframes and mainframes bored me and still do.)
I continued doing it because it's one thing I'm very good at and which pays the bills. One could argue that it's the only thing I'm very good at.
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Late 80s on a commodore64. I was sick of repeatedly estimating the number of tiles on a roof, and getting it wrong. The application reduced my error rate from about 20% to 5% and those were transposition errors because I had to write up the order manually.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I learned in 1967, because I wanted to learn about those newfangled compputer machines. I started getting paid to program in 1972 when I took a job to pay for my university studies.I tutored and taught FORTRAN for several years, then worked for a research commision writing FORTRAN and Algol programs. I started a software business in 1990 after working as an engineer for 15 years.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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