not sure about "expected". Quite a few of my friends and myself got computers in this era, vic20s, c64s, Spectrums, Ataris mostly. Most of my friends just lo

not sure about "expected". Quite a few of my friends and myself got computers in this era, vic20s, c64s, Spectrums, Ataris mostly. Most of my friends just loaded games. I learnt to program mine ( I had a few of these books! ), another friend spent a little bit of time learning basic also, but pirating quickly became a thing and soon everyone had a ton of games.