I had my first computer in 1982, a model 5150 IBM PC with no hard drive, single 360k floppy, CGA 8 color graphics, 64k memory (which I upgraded with DIPs to 128k), etc. I didn't have any software for it, so everything I did I wrote in BASIC

Even got accused of cheating on a report once, because it included graphics and everything. This is before Word Perfect even existed, Lotus 123 was the hot spreadsheet nobody understood, and Wordstar was the mainstay of word processing. This report (on asteroids) was all hand-coded in basic as well, including the rudimentary graphics. After they accused me of cheating and called my mother, she offered to have me code another report in front of their eyes in return for a very public apology. They declined and dropped the issue. I was eventually expelled from this supposed school for the gifted for various reasons