That's a good point. I focused on this aspect in a much earlier post, so tried to stick to my BASIC vs alternatives investigation here. The fact that the home

That's a good point. I focused on this aspect in a much earlier post, so tried to stick to my BASIC vs alternatives investigation here. The fact that the home computers used to be READY to be programmed within a second from powering up, and gave you such an easy access to all basic operations was what was so ... addictive?