I typed in a BASIC program for a C-64 from a computer magazine. That was a popular mechanism for software distribution back then. I thought "this will never wo

I typed in a BASIC program for a C-64 from a computer magazine. That was a popular mechanism for software distribution back then. I thought "this will never work", but I was amazed that it did in fact work. I remember letting it run overnight to find a complete 160x200 4-color image the next morning. Just clearing the screen using a loop to fill 8192 bytes with 0s took over a minute. Everything about the computers at the time was so terrible, I don't feel any nostalgia for those days or that technology.