Yes there was a special magic in those early days of home computers. There is so much more power and information available trivially now, but we have come to e

Yes there was a special magic in those early days of home computers. There is so much more power and information available trivially now, but we have come to expect that. Back then, if it wasn't in a written manual, there typically was no other source of information. But that didn't stop us! We simply had to tinker with it, reverse engineer it a bit. I think that was a big part of what made it special.