What was your first encounter with a computer?

[Michael]

Mainframe in grad school in 1976. We never saw the computer; all of our work was done in converted classrooms full of terminals. We used punch cards, as well.

I met my dear wife the next year when I walked into the terminal room and this hot young thing was hitting a keyboard because she couldn't get logged in. I helped and she eventually married me. Her career started as a programmer after her MA and ended up as director of IT in a school system. She figured out the login thing!