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If/when I have kids (hopefully a long ways off) I'm going to find a way to get some sort of BASIC machine in my house. That's where I started (at about the sam
by saryant 15y ago
If/when I have kids (hopefully a long ways off) I'm going to find a way to get some sort of BASIC machine in my house. That's where I started (at about the same age as you) and I still remember a long drive from Cheyenne to San Francisco, sitting in the back seat of our van with a toy VTech computer and a book on BASIC I found in our school library.
That feeling was awesome.
- DivisibleByZero 15y agoToday's equivalent would be a TI calculator. I had a similar experience coding in BASIC on a TI-89 during a road trips with the TI-BASIC manual. There is indeed a very awesome feeling about coding on a simple device with a physical manual.
- seclorum 15y agoMy kids have my old Oric-1/Atmos machines (I got a couple spare, heh heh..) and they love 'em. Nothing better than giving the kids a 'safe' computer to use (no Internet!) and coming back to some wild creation a few hours later ..