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My dad getting a Sinclair ZX81 kit and soldering together then booting into BASIC and him showing me how to program it. Then typing in BASIC programs from magaz
by SigmundA 6y ago
My dad getting a Sinclair ZX81 kit and soldering together then booting into BASIC and him showing me how to program it. Then typing in BASIC programs from magazines only to have them disappear on power down until we got a cassette save working.
Still have the Sinclair in a box in the basement keep wanting to try and get it to boot again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
Got a Commodore 64 after again boots into BASIC, I remember thinking how strange PC's where later that they didn't boot into a full programming language REPL but instead just a command prompt.
- heuroci 6y agoVery similar. ZX-48 at 11 years of age. First some graphics programs, then a chess program. The first program I "invented" was a guessing game. I graduated to pascal a couple of years after on a PC. The class was for professional adults, most of them engineers by training so I was the only kid. I did not have a PC, so I wrote pascal long hand through the week and then typed when in class. Fun times!
- gabrielsroka 6y agoFun fact, early IBM PCs from the 1980s would actually boot into ROM Microsoft BASIC if you didn't have a DOS floppy in the drive. See around the 5-minute mark in this video. https://youtu.be/e08YtFdwWxE https://youtu.be/e08YtFdwWxE