My first computer was a commodore 128. I had discovered programming a few years earlier though using my school's Commodore PETs and TRS-80s. At first, a disk drive (c-1570) was not in my parent's budget so I had no place to store programs. That was ok. I was so ecstatic about having a computer that I would write a program, turn off my computer, and rewrite the same one again the next day. Today, Microsoft has releaved me of the burden of going through this process by making reboot/rewrite a feature of their software.
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My first computer was a commodore 128. I had discovered programming a few years earlier though using my school's Commodore PETs and TRS-80s. At first, a disk drive (c-1570) was not in my parent's budget so I had no place to store programs. That was ok. I was so ecstatic about having a computer that I would write a program, turn off my computer, and rewrite the same one again the next day. Today, Microsoft has releaved me of the burden of going through this process by making reboot/rewrite a feature of their software.