Early 70s. Gotta think. My nearest public library had a manual on some flavor of BASIC, so I took that out and flipped thru it and wondered how anyone could th

Early 70s. Gotta think. My nearest public library had a manual on some flavor of BASIC, so I took that out and flipped thru it and wondered how anyone could think it was difficult. Then I had an opportunity to earn a few bucks writing a VIC-20 BASIC program to plot a transformer hysteresis curve.