Let’s go back the memory lane to the mid 1980s. Yes, I am that old. And just the other day I was reminiscing about how much the computer tech has gone forward since those days.
Write about your first computer.
As you can see from the picture, my first ever was Commodore C64 with a cassette deck. And that was where the little screwdriver came into play. If your games, on C-cassettes, didn’t work, you’d have to reload them and adjust the little screw in the deck itself, for better contact I guess. Usually that helped and you wouldn’t get the syntax error text.
Funniest thing?
I still remember the following:
10 ? “Hello World!”
20 GOTO 10
And that masterful coding would print the text Hello World! on the screen, and the second line would make it repeat the text… forever!
I also dabbled with coding as we had a magazine in Finland, called MikroBitti, rhat included small programs that you could then rigorously copy from the magazine to your computer screen. One day I decided to do just that, spent an hour reading the page, and painstakingly tapping the keyboard… and it didn’t work. That was the end of my budding coding career.
I kinda miss those days, but on the other hand… not. Since those days we moved on to Commodore Amiga 500, and after that a proper PC, with a modem! Those are stories for other times. Ah, the nostalgia.
Today’s blog was a short one, as it has been such a long time since my first ever computer that the memories have started to fade.
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