I started reading the manual of our ZX Spectrum because when the kit arrived the tape-deck didn't work. We had a bunch of free games with the computer, but we

I started reading the manual of our ZX Spectrum because when the kit arrived the tape-deck didn't work. We had a bunch of free games with the computer, but we couldn't load any of them! No doubt I'd have gotten around to it eventually anyway, but that was the direct source of my programming career: https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html