>then got into computer graphics with Amiga computers a while later.

Hah, that takes me back - the Juggler!

I started out with a Commodore PET at school in about 1980, drifted away from computers then from 1989 I had an Amiga (a 500 with, eventually, a whopping 20mb HDD!). They were great little machines for the time, pity CBM never really invested in the platform. I learned a lot about DOS and shell scripts (I think I had some kind of bsh clone installed) as well as ARexx and basic C... That was when I was money poor and time rich. Happy days. The concepts I learned back then are still standing me in good stead today.

Dan