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Let's see, I'm 57 going on 17. Started reading before 1st grade. My uncle dropped his GI Bill college textbooks so I had a great library of American & English lit as well as math books to read. My father's books were long gone by then. Lots of baseball and real football (not that soccer stuff) as a kid. We moved a lot, I logged 13 schools across the country in my first 12 years of schooling (with all of High School at the same school.)
Started programming as a teen in the mid 60s when I would go in on the weekends with my father and had the use of demonstrator/test bed machine along with all the 80-column punch cards anyone could want. Learned all of the classic languages like COBOL and FORTRAN.
The first machine I programmed was a Honeywell Series 200. First microcomputer was a Zilog Z80 S-100 bus homebrew running CP/M. First mainstream microcomputer was an Apple ][ with integer BASIC. First PC type machine was an ITT Xtra with a NEC V-10 CPU (8088 clone.)
I can sleep or study through anything. In grad school I lived in a second story walk-up across the alley from an auto repair and body shop. In my younger days I was a rock guitarist and a radio DJ so music is critical. (If your car muffler is drowning out your music it just means that you need a new car stereo.)
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