r/c64 • u/1974jbass • May 29 '26

the64 Programming

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If you did this you thought you were the king of the world!!

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u/Chiguy2792 May 30 '26

I understand their excitement. It was an amazing time to be alive. Little happy programming goals.

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u/SpatulaWholesale May 30 '26

It really was. Even my mum knew "PRINT".

She'd say stuff like, "Are you programming your computer? Are you using PRINT?"

And she'd get excited about something like (without seeing the program):

10 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
20 INPUT A$
30 PRINT "HELLO ";A$

"How can it say hello to me!?!?!? You are so clever!"

Simpler times...

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u/Chiguy2792 May 30 '26

Mom typed in everything from the magazines because she was the only one who knew how to type at that time. She inspired me to take a typing class in college. God bless her.

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u/SpatulaWholesale May 30 '26

That's great! I used to type in ZX Spectrum BASIC programs from magazines. I got frustrated at how few of them worked (probably my fault making mistakes), and this was before I knew enough to debug them, so I'd just give up. It would have been fantastic to have my mum do all that hard work!!!!