> Even in 1985, the things that a child could produce in BASIC weren't "interesting". Back then, as a child, my parents purchased books that contained basic pr

> Even in 1985, the things that a child could produce in BASIC weren't "interesting". Back then, as a child, my parents purchased books that contained basic programs that one could manually transcribe and save onto tape or disk that were actually interesting. IIRC, those books did contain an overview of how the program worked.