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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 34 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (5 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.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 14 minutes 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 12 points 2 hours ago

My brother in arms….

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour 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 2 points 51 minutes ago

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

[–] NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour 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 1 points 1 hour 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).