Around 1978, my dad brought me a blue book: 'introduction to BASIC' from Digital Equipment Corporation. He then _typed my programs_ for me into a DEC-20 at his

Around 1978, my dad brought me a blue book: 'introduction to BASIC' from Digital Equipment Corporation. He then _typed my programs_ for me into a DEC-20 at his office, and brought me the output to debug. Batch style programming with an interactive language! The other book that was instrumental in my downfall was 101 Basic Games, also published by DEC. Later, in high school, we had a PDP-8 with DEC EDUsystem BASIC on it, later replaced with a small PDP-11. This was right around the time that Apple ][ and TRS-80 were just appearing on the scene. Until then, programs were entered on printing terminals like Teletypes, GE Terminet, and DECwriter II. This is not that long ago, in a relative sense.