Comment Sears and Roebuck did it for me (Score 1) 886
When I was 9 years old (1982), my dad worked at a Sears store as a product demonstrator. Right across from his department was electronics. They had a TI-99/4A, Commodore VIC-20, Timex-Sinclair (with that nasty bubble keyboard), etc. The VIC-20 usually had my attention. One day, a shopper showed me how to make my name fill the screen, using everyone's first program:
10 PRINT "DAN"
20 GOTO 10
And I was hooked. A year or so later, I owned my own VIC-20, later replaced by a Commodore 128 (I skipped the 64 altogether). I didn't get my first "real" computer (a 386) until I was in university studying computer science.
I owe much of my early computing learning to RUN and Compute!'s Gazette magazines.
10 PRINT "DAN"
20 GOTO 10
And I was hooked. A year or so later, I owned my own VIC-20, later replaced by a Commodore 128 (I skipped the 64 altogether). I didn't get my first "real" computer (a 386) until I was in university studying computer science.
I owe much of my early computing learning to RUN and Compute!'s Gazette magazines.
