... couple hundred dollars and upgraded to 16k!) I've never looked back. (I also 'adored my Commodore 64!') Spent the 80s mostly playing and learning... then around 1990 I built my first real production thing: sales order/invoicing program in dBase that ran my own distribution company. (It worked. Mostly.) In 1999 I shipped abcDB, a mobile database (think MS Access) for Windows PocketPC that ended up in 110+ countries and localized into Spanish and Japanese. That weird little achievement ...