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Totally get it - part of it was that you could fully control and understand that machine. It could do so much and you were able to fully master it! Modern comp
by danielrpa 7y ago
Totally get it - part of it was that you could fully control and understand that machine. It could do so much and you were able to fully master it!
Modern computers are largely black boxes full of software that you can't understand and end up using through experiences that sit on top of dozens inscrutable layers. Not the Spectrum - you had the full power and control always!
- juskrey 7y agoI could hardly understand it at that time. What a kid could do? I was playing games, tweaking strip dice vars to always assign points to myself, moving circles across the screen with Basic, and trying to peek poke that alien assembler universe, one byte at a time.
- danielrpa 7y agoThat's ok. But it was possible to do it if you wanted.