The TI 99 was the first computer I tried to seriously program. When I had the Vic, I had this vague idea that I wanted to program it and had a friend who was into programming come over and try to write a basic program for/with me to help with my check book...kept getting an 'out of memory' error...imagine THAT
After I got out of the USMC ('86), I started back at school and accidentally got into computers by signing up for basic & fortran out of curiosity. After I signed up for those classes, I broke out my father-in-law's TI 99 and began fiddling around with basic. I was trying to write a dungeon generation program for D&D using the tables in the DMG. That program started in TI 99A Basic, then changed to Pascal, then to C (Borland C 1.0), and it never got finished