My dad was quite prescient for the time and bought me and my sister VIC-20s with little black and white matching TVs. I have great memories of typing in games from magazines and hacking the random sentence generator in BASIC and loading/saving programs to cassette tape over many minutes. Ten minutes to find and load a program!
The sentence generator was quite hilarious, my friends and I added all the bad words a group of 12 year-olds could think up and put them in the DATA lines. Hours and weeks of fun and laughs, haha. I'm a bit jealous other people discovered assembly language on the thing, didn't know it existed at the time.
Had the whole thing with Datasette, Manuals, and tapes in the original box in mint condition until around 2001-ish… until I finally sold and trashed everything to backpack around the world, sigh.
My dad was quite prescient for the time and bought me and my sister VIC-20s with little black and white matching TVs. I have great memories of typing in games from magazines and hacking the random sentence generator in BASIC and loading/saving programs to cassette tape over many minutes. Ten minutes to find and load a program!
The sentence generator was quite hilarious, my friends and I added all the bad words a group of 12 year-olds could think up and put them in the DATA lines. Hours and weeks of fun and laughs, haha. I'm a bit jealous other people discovered assembly language on the thing, didn't know it existed at the time.
Had the whole thing with Datasette, Manuals, and tapes in the original box in mint condition until around 2001-ish… until I finally sold and trashed everything to backpack around the world, sigh.