On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 4:14 pm, Frankie wrote: > Basic was the first language I learned.. > > Back when I was a youngin I was given a Commodore Vic 20 > computer. > I taught myself basic and wrote my first big program... > > A space invaders clone.. > > Much Later on when XT's came out, they started teaching > basic on the XT > at highschool.. the XT's we had were monocrome, had no hard > drive > and two 5 1/4 floppies. > > They had a great star trek game though, you were an O (the > enterprise) > and you had to enter co-ordinates to blow up the X's, > (klingons). > > I wasted alot of time playing that back then... > > Big diff from what kids are used to nowdays though.. > > The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very quickly and soon became useless, so you had to have a backup tape. Also, I had the 16KB (Yes, KB!) memory pack, strapped on the back with insultating tape to stop wobble. You would work all evening on a bit of programming, then at 23:30 you would have a 'white-out' and it was all lost. That's how I learned the value of backups <g>
Anne
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