Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985

• supercheesecake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t know about the OP, but our first computer was a TRS-80 clone with a tape drive, 16k ram, and stunning 64x16 B&W graphics. Every month dad would drive us to computer club, we’d copy as many games as we could (onto tape), then spend the rest of the month trying to get them to work. Rinse and repeat. It was awesome.

  Also typed in basic games from the computer mags which needed lots of debugging. How I learnt to program (before being taught Pascal in high school).

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Typing in the games could be both fun and highly frustrating. I had an Apple II and if you fucked up on a line, you probably weren’t going to be able to find it and fix it. There was no debugger and typing LIST would show you the whole thing and you couldn’t scroll up. So if you did it right, it was great. If you messed up somewhere, good luck.

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    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t remember much on the apple, but in commodore basic you could do LIST 50-80 for example, I’m willing to bet the apple could too…

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You probably could and I just never knew it.

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• FReddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do have a funny story about the place I got it in San Francisco, of you care to hear it.

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  • Jacksachatter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So what’s the story man? Come on, some of us are invested already.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Absolutely! Please do continue.

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• FReddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just used it for writing papers in college.

  I had no idea how to use COBOL.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ok, so it was more like a digital typewriter to you.

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