In Which I Date Myself Embarrassingly
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On July 12, 2007
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At 4:24 pm
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In in my day we walked five miles uphill both ways to school every day and we loaded primitive baseball sims from loud , slow floppy drives and we liked it
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I first learned BASIC on a Commodore VIC-20. With a cassette drive instead of a floppy drive (which was probably good for educational purposes, since the chances of a surreptitious game loading actually working were highly erratic.) I did use an Apple II in school the next year, but our first home PC was a Commodore-64, with PaperClip (the word processor whose copy protection required you to plug something into the joystick port.) It was good for a lot of hours of Geopolitque 1990, I’ll tell you that!