Re:Ask YC: What was your first computer?
by arhar on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @04:58PM
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Yes!!!
I had the same thing. I also used it to teach myself BASIC... Just because there was no other way to communicate with the computer, really.
My "favorite" part was how long it would take to load a program from the cassette drive. At least 5-6 minutes, during which the screen would go weird colors (with time, you learned to distinguish - white/red means nothing happening, blue/yellow means program is loading) and make really weird sounds...
I had the same thing. I also used it to teach myself BASIC... Just because there was no other way to communicate with the computer, really.
My "favorite" part was how long it would take to load a program from the cassette drive. At least 5-6 minutes, during which the screen would go weird colors (with time, you learned to distinguish - white/red means nothing happening, blue/yellow means program is loading) and make really weird sounds...