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      Well, often it was a game of super spy keepaway and no one ever made it to a computer or had the code or the data was to save a good guy or whatever

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        To THE computer, wherever that was. When i learned Basic in 1986/87, the only computers i had access to, were those we used in class.

        Yeah, after class, homework consisted of writing code on paper. Copilot = Basic Book

        Like, for what purpose you’d have a computer at home?

        Iirc Basic was the first, non-scientist friendly programming language. I saw an ad in the newspapers and signed up. We were 6 students in total and the first people ( not working in any scientific field ) in our small town, which knew how to use a computer and write the code for the beloved starfield screen saver in Basic.

        Edit: having watched war games 3 years prior, when i was 13, i really felt like a spy doing secret stuff.

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          Iirc Basic was the first, non-scientist friendly programming language.

          COBOL predates it, having first been introduced in 1959. BASIC came about in 1963.