On 17 Oct 2001, Steve Mynott wrote: > I wrote my first computer > program on a Commodore PET (the original one with the calc-type > keyboard). >
Same here - I wrote a theatre booking system that used some awful metal bashing pokery straight into the display memory trick to show the seats : it saved the data on the same data on the same cassette tape as the program and there was some equally astonishing hack employed to get the tape to appear to rewind where the data was and not overwrite the program. I can't actually recall if it attempted to print anything but it would have been worrying if it had as the only available printer was (even for ~ 1979) a venerable teletype with a punched tape reader/writer on it - I think I still might have the program listing on punched tape somewhere in the bottom of a box at my parents house, I had to keep it as even then it felt retro. /J\
