[deoetdoctrinae]

I have been fiddling with computers since software was distributed in magazines and you had to key in the code and save it on your cassette tape drive.

Wow. Your comment took me back in time. I remember doing the same thing, with a Commodore VIC20.

Here's Captain Kirk as a computer salesman!

[Still Thinking]

Mark-sense cards here, AND cassette tapes.

[fireman15]

Wow. Your comment took me back in time. I remember doing the same thing, with a Commodore VIC20.

Yes, I spent who knows how many hours and days typing in programs for the Timex Sinclair, TRS-80 pocket computer, TI99-4a, VIC20, and the first MSX prototype computer the Spectravideo SV-320. These came from books and magazines. This actually was good in some ways as far as learning goes. This didn't really stop until I after I got a Commodore 64 with a disk drive. With the IBM XT clone I ended up typing in programs for the incredible “automated” macro language built into Lotus 123 which was not truly surpassed by MS Excel for years.

It was possible to create a program in the lotus macro language in a few minutes that would have taken hours to create in a home computer BASIC programming language.