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My first access to a personal computer was in a department store where they had Commodore PETs on display. Sales guy didn't know how to use them so was happy t
by Jemm 4y ago
My first access to a personal computer was in a department store where they had Commodore PETs on display. Sales guy didn't know how to use them so was happy to let us stand there for hours playing with them.
- zikduruqe 4y agoWe use to think we were hackers and would write up BASIC code something like: 10 PRINT CHR$(147) 20 X = 1 30 FOR X+1 30 PRINT X 40 GOTO 20 Then run away cackling as the numbers kept printing thinking that somehow it would run forever. (or something like that... it was 40 years ago)
- technothrasher 4y agoYou need your knuckles rapped for that code. It reminds me of the "spot the errors" assignments my teacher in high school computer class would give us ;-) As for the department store computer displays, I do remember K-Mart would have the Atari 2600's running in some kind of demo mode so it would reboot whatever game it was playing after about 5 minutes. I learned I could just barely win "Superman" before the reboot, if I started it right away.
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