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tristanb on March 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: British PCs of the 1980s

I loved my BBC micro. I borrowed a book from a library that gave me a few hundred line of BASIC software I had to type in. It was great.

tcskeptic on March 26, 2023 [–]

My school got one (in Malaysia). It was the first computer I ever used. Typing BASIC programs in from magazines and saving them out to cassette tape. Good times. It felt magical.

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