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Tangentially (?) I would not underestimate the impact the manuals of various early computers had on young programmers. I wore my Vic 20 manual out copying out
by sillyquiet 5y ago
Tangentially (?) I would not underestimate the impact the manuals of various early computers had on young programmers.
I wore my Vic 20 manual out copying out programs from it while learning not only BASIC but some pretty fundamental stuff about computer architecture. It was so significant to me I had to buy a copy from eBAY decades later to keep on my shelf.
- kjellsbells 5y agoi assert that the very practice of typing listings from books and magazines back in the day was exactly the sort of slow paced repetition that was required for really deep memorization. i can still remember PEEK and POKE from BBC Basic 40 years later.