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Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ... by decasteve on Saturday December 13, 2014 @10:24PM (#8747349)
My not-so-tragic story of programming in BASIC as a kid was on a Coleco Adam. I would pick up 1980's computer books/magazines from the library with BASIC code in them that I would type in. Some weren't meant for the version of BASIC the Coleco had and wouldn't run without modifications. Getting them to run was half the fun.

The Coleco Adam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam

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Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ... by spdustin on Sunday December 14, 2014 @01:59AM (#8747640)
The sound of the high speed tape drive when booting up (or playing Buck Rogers) still remains fresh in my mind. That, and the daisy wheel printer's rhythmic whir-rat-tat-tat-chunk-whine whenever I printed out a letter asking for another tape drive.

I also had my first generative music experience with the Adam - POKEing numbers into various registers would trigger the waveform generators and if combined with various patterns/functions (sin, cos, and the like) would make some cool sequences.

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