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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 21 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (4 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.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

My brother in arms….

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 1 points 16 minutes 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).

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 1 points 35 minutes ago

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

[–] NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 1 points 39 minutes ago

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

[–] NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 3 points 34 minutes ago

I can provide an anecdotal evidence of someone who started in MSX-DOS, then PC MS-DOS, went to Windows, then Unix, back to Windows, then Linux, and now is on Mac.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago

Discluded? I have another hypothesis.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 1 points 34 minutes ago

I have ADHD. Always have. Diagnosed ADD/ODD as a kid. Grew up with a old 386 running DOS. Mom eventually updated to a PC running Windows 95, then 98, then Windows ME. When I was a young teen I built my first PC because I was playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live and joined a clan that ran a few Halo PC servers. Learned a lot about stuff then, developed a love for it. Was perpetually broke and pirated a bunch of games, eventually buying most of them.

I recently installed SteamOS on my Legion Go after finding an adapter and new backplate to fit a proper full-sized SSD in it. Also nabbed a couple of extra USB powered fans to keep the WiFi card cool, stuck to the back of the thing with double-sided tape. It's a jury-rigged mess and I love it. I also happen to be a circuit board tech. Not an electrical engineer or anything, but I assemble, test, and rework PCBAs. Had a short stint in helpdesk IT, hated it. I'm much more of a hardware guy. Never did learn to code much past a bit of HTML for my MySpace page back in the day.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I had some add a kid. When I moved out it became a bit to expensive (and osx happened, which maar all my knowledge of the os moot) so I switched to windows.

Last year I moved to Linux and will never look back

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

lol. Linux didn’t even exist when I was 12 I think or it was very very young

[–] llamatron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

'Excluded' surely?

[–] Klear@quokk.au 2 points 58 minutes ago

I concluded the same.