On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Maglinger, Paul<[email protected]> wrote: >> I remember buying magazines for the ZX Spectrum that contained games - if >> you had the patience to type in every line of code required. And then >> finding there was a syntax error somewhere on line 5040.... > > They had those in the Commodore magazine. > There was almost always a typo somewhere, or you couldn't always tell if > there was a space (or how many), or if that was a period or a comma. And > once you got it right, you could save it to your cassette recorder!
I remember doing similar on a friend's Apple ][, except we could never get the damn tape interface to work right, so we had to leave a big note on the computer saying "DO NOT TOUCH OR TURN OFF!!" and hope the power didn't go out, and only work on one program at a time. I remember when they got the upgrade to the floppy drive -- high tech! The first PC in my (parents) home was a Tandy 1000 SL. It not only came standard with floppy and a whopping 512 KB of RAM, it had MS-DOS in *ROM* -- so you could turn it on and get right to a prompt. Plus it had a clock battery. "Only IBM-PC users know that January 1, 1980 was a Tuesday." -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
