What made you a programmer

What is that special mix of circumstances that made you start programming?

>>14
even if we're talking about east germany here, i still strongly doubt that you could obtain a 286, because

+ robotron
+ stasi would have been on your ass way before you realized that you fucked up big time
+ robotron
+ >implying 286
+ robotron
+ there was no "underground economy of computerparts"
+ oh did i already mention that robotron created similar tools (infact, they had roughly 20 MSDOS clones)?
+ also stasi and lack of underground economy

make some sense, asshole