That's pretty much the way life was for me in 1982. Of course, you couldn't make an app 'like this' in the 8-bit days - no networking, no onboard camera, no tou

That's pretty much the way life was for me in 1982. Of course, you couldn't make an app 'like this' in the 8-bit days - no networking, no onboard camera, no touch screen - but my Dad & I sat literally at the dinner table and wrote home-cooked apps together. We learned to code together, but he taught me how to make the computer do useful things: as a language teacher he created quiz games that he could take in to use in his high school classroom. I seem to remember designing custom fonts to get the accents right on the French words (did I mention, no Unicode?)