I got hooked on computers when I took my first programming class in college - a required course as part of the EE stuff I was doing at the time. My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80, where I wrote BASIC programs (to tape!). But the first piece of true software that really evolved things (for me) was when I got my Apple //c and was using AppleWorks.
Ahh, how things have changed since then.
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes