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Tell HN: The stuff I learned to program on
I noticed, we are telling us that all the time, even when it is borderline off topic. So I thought let's just have this fireside chat for once…
What toolchain started you off as a coder?
What was particular awesome about it?
Here's mine:
Triumph Adler Alphatronic PC
https://vintagecpu.wordpress.com/royal-triumph-adler-alphatronic-pc/
I thought the amber colored display was more awesome than the usual standard green ones.
Softwarewise the graphic commands to draw lines were a cool addition to the BASIC. Much like Turtle graphics.
Later on the CP/M cli was pretty exciting. Exiting the editor to start the linker and compiler…
Ah, and there was an event listener who could detect when a disk was inserted into the drive, if memory doesn't fail me.