“20 GOTO 10” – there’s a line of code that I remember writing way, way back in the day!
Did anyone else get their start in programming on the old original IBM PC which came with no hard drive, and would boot to a BASIC programming environment if booted with no floppy in the A: drive?
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Man I still Rock BASIC.
BASIC was so much fun when I was a few years younger.
i"We had no disks in the computer lab; we honed the art of concisely coded computer games, because you’d have to type it in from your printout before you could play."/i
In our middle school computer lab, we had a bunch of Commodore PET computers sharing a floppy drive over some wacky parallel bus. If two stations tried to save at the same time, they’d corrupt the disk. So at the end of class, the instructor would go around to see what each person had done. If you had something cool, he’d let you save it off. If you had a 10-print-20-goto-10 program, he’d switch the machine off without mercy.