Before that we had the BASIC dialect that came with ROM on power up. :) And this is how we got many of our games from the local library, or bookstore, Atari as

Before that we had the BASIC dialect that came with ROM on power up. :) And this is how we got many of our games from the local library, or bookstore, Atari as example, but similar existed for the other 8 bit home computers, https://www.atariarchives.org https://www.atariarchives.org