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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 69 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (8 children)

I wrote a program in Basic on my Commodore 64 at 6.

I didn’t know how to save my work. I typed and manually proofread code for three hours. It worked. The program was lost when I powered it down.

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

Holy crap, I did the same thing! My dad taught me the Random function (RND), which blew my mind. I tried creating a dungeon crawler text based game with random rooms. It was going to be awesome.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 hours ago

TI-99/4a for me, but after the first big loss of something that worked is when I found out there was a cassette adapter. My parents did not buy it new, it was maybe 5 or 6 years old by then, so finding a cassette adapter took some effort.

Worth it though IMO.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

I wrote basic on my Apple IIe.

I was all Apple/Mac until 1998 when I built a Windows gaming pc with high school graduation money. Learned to code in art school, after which I switched back to Macs when they went intel, built annoying but fun flash ads and games in AS2 (ECMAscript essentially), then when the iPhone came out I switched to hand coding HTML/CSS/JS web apps and got out of advertising.

Then learned Ruby/Sinatra/Rails/Haml/SASS and did straight web dev into the early days of both React, Angular and Vue. Then quit to do a tech startup with robots.

Now I CAD model original designs for fabrication projects, 3D printing and custom automotive designs.

So I’m pretty technically inclined, but I own 4 Macs, 3 Rpis, dozens of physical computing platforms, and a metric ton of salvaged sensors and ex-RadioShack components.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 3 hours ago

I think it was pretty common back then to have no way to save. Spectrum zx. Amstrad 464. They didn’t initially have a media to save to. Then cassette tapes could be used. Software piracy was recording the tape, like copying a song.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago

My brother in arms….

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Our Commodore VIC20 came with a big book/manual which mostly taught you how to code. Was an awesome time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago

Yeah the “OS” was essentially a basic interpreter and simple editor. I remember that book.

[–] NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago

It’s like looking at a mirror. Only it was a Sharp HotBit (a Brazilian computer) and I was 7 or 8.

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 2 points 4 hours ago

Heh, I was going to comment on my first being a C64 (technically a Vic 20 is the first I ever messed with, but I don't really remember that one).