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Home computers, especially cheap ones, were always marketed as programmable: it was a hobbyist market. If you wanted to do word processing, you'd have bought a
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Home computers, especially cheap ones, were always marketed as programmable: it was a hobbyist market. If you wanted to do word processing, you'd have bought a CP/M machine.
As for the modem slot, it was quite common to have dial-up BBSes at the time. You can probably imagine.
- agumonkey 10y agoI don't know, as a Kid all we saw was games, games, games. As soon as the machine was unboxed, we inserted the disk and type RUN. We never heard the name BASIC anywhere, except maybe in passing while booting.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoErm... I think you might have been in the minority on that. Wait, what computer were you even using?