Today, I work primary in C# using the .NET framework on our web-based point-of-sale system EverywhereBridal. I also work on a large Visual FoxPro application, The ProfitSystem.
The first computer I really used was a PDP-11/34. I didn’t own the PDP-11/34, Butler University did. Since my father was a professor we had a VT-52 compatible dumb terminal and acoustic coupler.
With them I could connect to the PDP and play games, like Star Trek, and more importantly, write programs. It was my first exposure to BASIC.
My first personal computer was a Commodore 64 where I learned 6510 assembly language with Commodore 64: Programmers Reference Guide and books by Jim Butterfield.
From there it was on to the IBM PC and MS-DOS. Pascal code using the UCSD p-System, Intel Assembler with MASM, Turbo Pascal, Clipper and FoxPro for DOS.
When we started our first company, we used Pascal, Clipper, dBase, and FoxPro for DOS and Windows to develop line of business applications.