What if we started on an Oric-1?
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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.
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.
My brother in arms….
Our Commodore VIC20 came with a big book/manual which mostly taught you how to code. Was an awesome time.
Yeah the “OS” was essentially a basic interpreter and simple editor. I remember that book.
It’s like looking at a mirror. Only it was a Sharp HotBit (a Brazilian computer) and I was 7 or 8.
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).
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.
Discluded? I have another hypothesis.
I have a third hypothesis to add to the mix..
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (sorry, paywalled).
Those who use the verb discluded should probably be discluded.
Even autocorrect discludes this as a valid word.
I started on a Power Macintosh, does that count?
I wrote a program in BASIC on my Apple ][, but unlike the Commodore in this thread I knew how to save it. I eventually ended up with a pretty cool maze game. It had several mazes you had to maneuver through, but the mazes would randomly change
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.
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
lol. Linux didn’t even exist when I was 12 I think or it was very very young
'Excluded' surely?
Discluded is an uncommonly used word, but it is a word. Could indicate the OP in image is from a UK-English country and an academic - they like the top shelf rare words.
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (Oxford English Dictionary. Sorry, they have a dumb paywall now. I used a search engine cached-copy from the definition page).
I concluded the same.
She may have miscluded.