"With that, I played games – which more often than not, I typed in by hand from the small print in the back pages of COMPUTE! magazine"

Via Glenn Reynolds comes this excellent appraisal of advances in computer technology.

For the record, my first computer was also a VIC-20. I could type before I could write.

Comments

[jeff]

Hi Jackalope - thanks for the link and the kind comment.

The VIC was my first as well, if you don't count the occasional TRS-80s that my father brought in from work on occasion. Didn't get to play with them though.

I cut my programming teeth on BASIC; darn if I still don't have occasion to use it now & then - well, VB anyway. I guess some things don't change, they just get more complicated.

Cheers!