I think that's one of the big features of old 8-bit micros that I'm saddest to see is gone. You turn them on and start programming. Today, you don't need to pro

I think that's one of the big features of old 8-bit micros that I'm saddest to see is gone. You turn them on and start programming. Today, you don't need to program a computer, it comes loaded with things to do, many of them already running, some that may work against you... and it has an app store full of other such things! But back then, computers were for programming like pencils were for writing with. Writing and then running programs was what you did with a computer. Sure, you could load someone else's program... but you had to tell the system to load it before it could... even exist in the computer's memory.