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I grew up with a 400 in the house. The keyboard was truly awful. Didn't stop me from firing up BASIC, but between the keyboard and lack of storage it sure was
by techdmn 7y ago
I grew up with a 400 in the house. The keyboard was truly awful. Didn't stop me from firing up BASIC, but between the keyboard and lack of storage it sure wasn't my ten-year-old self's primary development machine. (We had a cassette drive, but I don't think it ever worked right.)
- johnvega 7y agoMy family also had Atari 400. Also had the cassette drive. I used it to program in BASIC. We got it with the Asteroids game and a joystick and that was a lot of fun.
- protomyth 7y agoLearned to program on the 400 (with a 48k upgrade) in BASIC and 6502. I still think my preference for mechanical keyboards is a direct result of owning the 400.