[ams6110]

First "real" program I ever wrote -- at age 12 or 13 was on TI-99/4A. I've never been into video games so I wrote a program to manage my paper route. Back then there were these paper publications called newspapers and kids could get jobs that entailed walking around the neighborhood without adult supervision and delivering the papers to houses. Also collecting money once a month.

I had a customer file (on cassette tape of course) and it tracked how much each customer owed, etc.

It was a spaghetti mess I'm sure as I knew nothing about programming but I got it to work.

Of course a paper ledger would have been just as good (and probably faster to use) but where's the fun in that?