What was your first encounter with a computer?

[Lew Zealand]

1980 in grade school. 3 black Bell+Howell licensed Apple ][ clones made the rounds and I remember a lemonade stand program and something else. A year of 2 later the school got some permanent ones and I started learning BASIC and the weird way that those machines displayed color.

I was years later when I realized that Black wasn't the color of Apple computers, those Bell+Howell Apples were ubiquitous in our school system.