Poll: Which 8-bit computer got you into programming

Re:Poll: Which 8-bit computer got you into programming by WorldWideWayne on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:56PM (#7933763)

I'm the other VIC-20 vote so far and I don't know where my family had gotten that computer. It came with a book of BASIC programs that you could type in but we didn't have have a storage unit (tape drive), so each time I wanted to play a game I had to type the entire program in and run it. Most of the time I asked my mom to type it in for me, but I remember a couple of times that I spent the hour hunting and pecking in order to play my favorite game (Moon Rover or something, I forget the name).

Fun times!

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Re:Poll: Which 8-bit computer got you into programming by stagas on Monday June 23, 2014 @03:31PM (#7934029)

I used to do that too! On a Spectrum, I had to type in the program, but I didn't even know how to read, so I just matched the symbols on paper with the symbols on the keyboard and tried to get the same output on the TV. Can't remember the games though.

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