I wanted ZX Spectrum clone (they were popular here) when I was even younger, but we didn't have money for computer. When I was 10, in 1994, mother bought used IBM PC/AT clone for her work (AMD Am286 14 MHz CPU, 1 MB RAM, 40 MB ST506 MFM HDD, EGA 16 colour video [max resolution 640x350]). That was my first actual experience with computer at home and I started learning to code some two weeks later.

kristapsk

Same here. On a ZX Spectrum. Around the age of 10.
It was the first programming language I learned.

SpaceHodler

398ja

Oh yeah, I subscribed to Compute (or COMPUTE! [as Wikipedia notes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute!)) and still remember it fondly. 

StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

I didn't get started that early, but I do remember a magazine, I think it was called Compute, that had code to experiment with. Good times, haha!

0xbitcoiner

devs

The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60

Man, I spent so many hours as a kid learning BASIC by typing in programs from magazines. Such good times. 