Wow, I remember those! I was in a small computer club that built one of these:

http://www.oldcomputers.net/altair-8800.html

The first computer I ever programmed on.

In Fortran using the IMAGE 3000 database. I did custom mods to the ASK ManMan and FinMan software systems.

My first home computer was a Commodore VIC 20.  Even learned some Basic programming.
 
In late 60's/early 70's I worked as a Telemetry Processor programmer at NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center).  The "Apollo" processor was machine language.  Later they got a new system and it used a modified BAL programming language. 

This is the first computer I ever wrote code for, the Univac 1218 computer, a Navy data processing system. I was a computer operator on a US Navy ship and whiled away the long hours writing all kinds of fun programs. I went on to repair these things before I got out of the service. This isn't me, by the way. :)

 
By the way, this computer is an 18-bit computer (using octal readouts) and 4K wire core memory. It was awesome.

fireberd
My first home computer was a Commodore VIC 20.  Even learned some Basic programming.
 
In late 60's/early 70's I worked as a Telemetry Processor programmer at NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center).  The "Apollo" processor was machine language.  Later they got a new system and it used a modified BAL programming language. 

I loved old tech! It did so much with so little. I lived in Huntsville Alabama in the 90's and had lots of neighbors who worked on cool stuff like that. One of my neighbors also worked on telemetry for the shuttle program (I believe) at Marshall Space Flight Center. There were lots of NASA guys in my little neighborhood, amazing talent. I worked for Intergraph there on our proprietary Unix-based CAD systems and later on NT-based solutions.  

bapu
The first computer I ever programmed on.

In Fortran using the IMAGE 3000 database. I did custom mods to the ASK ManMan and FinMan software systems.

Sweet! I used to work on a plotter system driven by one of those things, if memory serves, though I'm probably wrong. Didn't those guys use a Unix or Unix variant OS?

kevinwal

bapu
The first computer I ever programmed on.

In Fortran using the IMAGE 3000 database. I did custom mods to the ASK ManMan and FinMan software systems.

Sweet! I used to work on a plotter system driven by one of those things, if memory serves, though I'm probably wrong. Didn't those guys use a Unix or Unix variant OS?

If they did, they hid it well. But then again, since it was my first it all seemed special and unique.

BTW, that was 1978 for me on the HP-3000.
 

First PC I ever programmed on...

I didn't own a PC until 95. My family couldn't afford it and I was broke. I really envy you guys who started of in the 70s and 80s. Some friends of mine had commodore and sharp tho. And I was into computer and audio, music production, early on. I think it was 1990 or something I first thought of it and in 1992 I worked as a doorstep I a studio and learned some drums programming. Don't remember what the DAW was. But the owner was a prick, and I was a fool. Bad combination. And the work just lasted a year. So in 95 when I got hold of a PC, the first I did was installing a DAW. my first was Musicator 2. A Norwegian midi recording/ editing software. I remember that it was sometimes stuttering playback. Lol