I forgot who made the first computer I used. It was similar to the BBC Micro (conspicuously absent from this list), but this was in the US. It hooked up to a

I forgot who made the first computer I used. It was similar to the BBC Micro (conspicuously absent from this list), but this was in the US. It hooked up to a (black and white) TV and let you program in BASIC (with no permanent storage, most of the time was indeed spent programming). We rented it from the public library--there wasn't much demand, so you could keep it at home for days.