Story time: When the BBC micro arrived at my tiny rural school the elderly teacher had been given instructions for how to type in and run a simple "hello world

Story time: When the BBC micro arrived at my tiny rural school the elderly teacher had been given instructions for how to type in and run a simple "hello world" style program to demonstrate what this amazing machine could do. She began copy-typing in the program and then invited each of us to sit at the keyboard and add our names to what I imagine was a simple print statement. Finally, after quite some time going around the whole class one by one, the program was ready and she pressed return and .. Syntax error The machine was promptly powered off and put back in the box. It would be a few years before it reemerged and, thankfully, captured my interest.