It found me... as a curious 7 year old back in 1983.
The ZX Spectrum didn't really come with many cassette tapes of software, I had no money for games, and the only other thing you could with it was write programs. It booted straight into what you'd probably now call a code editor so it was easy to get started. It also came with a manual on how the built-in BASIC language worked, so I taught myself from there and have never looked back.
Maannn, I would have loved that as a kid. Heck, I would still love to have that now, just to play around with it. It reminds me of when I was a child. My brother-in-law would take me to the library and I would explore the computers as much as I could because I was fascinated by them. We couldn't afford a computer at home but my mom brought home a regular typing keyboard and I would type on that thing all day, acting as if I was on the computer, LOL! Thank you for sharing your story.
It found me... as a curious 7 year old back in 1983.
The ZX Spectrum didn't really come with many cassette tapes of software, I had no money for games, and the only other thing you could with it was write programs. It booted straight into what you'd probably now call a code editor so it was easy to get started. It also came with a manual on how the built-in BASIC language worked, so I taught myself from there and have never looked back.
It had a huge 48K of memory!
Maannn, I would have loved that as a kid. Heck, I would still love to have that now, just to play around with it. It reminds me of when I was a child. My brother-in-law would take me to the library and I would explore the computers as much as I could because I was fascinated by them. We couldn't afford a computer at home but my mom brought home a regular typing keyboard and I would type on that thing all day, acting as if I was on the computer, LOL! Thank you for sharing your story.
I found code... Happy to day this