very similar childhood. my old man was a fortran dev in the 80s and so i had access to a lot of the borland tools thru his work. what a time to be a curious mind, i miss those days very much.
But this was a great boon to me because it gave me a highly spec'd 486DX in the early 90s.
The side-by-side 'dir' command demo he did was pretty impressive.
Somebody down the chain got his 386 and somebody else got their 286.