My first code was written on a TRS-80 at my jr. highschool. The first work I did that had a wider audience was done at Sears on a Tandy Color Computer it went something like this:
10 Print "Sears Sucks"
20 GOTO 10
The first computer my family owned was a Commodore Vic-20 and I typed in plenty of proggies out of magazines. They were stored on cassette tapes and we bought a modem - then a phone because we needed to be able to disconnect the hand piece once we'd connected to a bbs and plug the cord into the modem. All our phones were slimline and disconnecting those dropped the call.
10 Print "Sears Sucks"
20 GOTO 10
The first computer my family owned was a Commodore Vic-20 and I typed in plenty of proggies out of magazines. They were stored on cassette tapes and we bought a modem - then a phone because we needed to be able to disconnect the hand piece once we'd connected to a bbs and plug the cord into the modem. All our phones were slimline and disconnecting those dropped the call.
The 80s were a really fun time to be a geek.