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Still have my C64 complete with tape and 1541 Drive. I don't think it is still in working condition though cause it is stored.
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Always wanted the disk drive, pocket money won't strech for it.
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It was around 1980 too. No hard disk, no floppy disk, just a normal tape recorder. 1 kB of RAM on a 1 MHz zx81 with basic in ROM.
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normal cassette tape recorder - ME TOO 
age 12 Radio Shack Tandy 64
My first BIG program was to quiz myself on vocab words - one cassette wrinkle and it was GONE!
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This is an interesting question because those of us who grew up in an age of valve radios, no TV and wind-up gramophones couldn't possibly have written any lines of code in our early years! I was 28 when I wrote my first line of code - in hexadecimal machine code - without even the benefit of an assembler!
A supplementary question could be "What month/year did you write your first line of code?" to which I would reply September 1977 (if I remember correctly).
Incidentally, my mention of gramophones reminds me of the 3 standard speeds for records, 33, 45 & 78 rpm and did you know that if you were born in '45 you'd be 33 in '78?
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62. Seriously. I worked as a reporter, writer and researcher until then.
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20, in 1955.
I wrote a Fortran program on an IBM650 (about the size of a refrigerator) analyzing elevator dynamics.
took three passes on punched card decks which got progressively larger,
ultimately printing out on a line printer.
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18, in 1969, in my first Computer Programming course in college. We learned Algol-60 for the Univac 1108.
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hmmm.. may be iam 18 year's old at that time.
MSZ
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Maybe 20. Hand assembled machine code on the Altair 8800 I'd just built from a kit.
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I was 10 or 11 years old. It also started with BASIC and loved it! I was an avid fan of Qbasic until I got to college and understood why complicated languages like C or C++ matters.
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When I was 16, in high school I had access to the Tulsa University computer lab. My first coding was done in Fortran. That would have been in 1965!! And yes, I'm still coding! As long as there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll be doing it.
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10-ish.
a Basic and/or Logo line of code.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Logo line of code
Yes, I can relate to that. I first got into programming when our "computer" teacher at my elementary school back in the early '80s brought in an Apple ][e with Logo on it. Thought it was really cool, and that's where it all started for me.
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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14. I remember writing pascal programs and running them on a floppy disk
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 for Logo, it was my first programming language when I was somewhere around 7-8 years old, I still have a book on it, (although I don't have a 5 1/2 disk reader to load the interpreter anymore...  )
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I was 8 and it was a simpler time (1957) and I was a member of the Secret squadron, here's[^] the details.
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nice commercial !
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
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12 years old programming in Basic on a Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer II.
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Same computer and same age for me. Gotta love those Trash 80s.
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I'm sorry Mike I really liked you an' all, but now that you've uncovered your membership of the "Secret Squadron" I guess we'll have to kill you. Please do return your official membership card, your official Secret Squadron manual and be sure to also return your combination badge and decoder.
Requiescat in pace.
P.S.: Don't call us, we'll find you! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Well dang I've been busted.
Do I have to return the decoder...really? 
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Never mind the decoder Mike, errmm I was just trying to keep you busy.
The SSES (Secret Squadron Execution Staff) should be at your doorstep any minute.
Just a moment, did I really post this in a public forum.
Arrghh, I guess we'll meet in a couple of minutes, wherever that may be.
Laters! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Ah you slipped up my friend the SSES is no longer secret. 
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