I just realized I can answer this. That raises some unexpected feelings.
I was just a kid 30 years ago learning to program, by curiosity mostly, on an Amiga 500 using AmigaBASIC and some assembly.
It was neat. The manuals were helpful and nearly complete. You just can't get that on modern computers. The Intel manual is a monstrosity.
Sure, if you made a mistake in your program you generally crashed the entire computer. But that didn't really matter much back then on those machines. You just turned it off and back on and tried again.
It will always feel novel to me though because I had plenty of time to grow up in a world without having a computer before they came into my life. When they did it felt like I was a part of a secret world.
I was just a kid 30 years ago learning to program, by curiosity mostly, on an Amiga 500 using AmigaBASIC and some assembly.
It was neat. The manuals were helpful and nearly complete. You just can't get that on modern computers. The Intel manual is a monstrosity.
Sure, if you made a mistake in your program you generally crashed the entire computer. But that didn't really matter much back then on those machines. You just turned it off and back on and tried again.
It will always feel novel to me though because I had plenty of time to grow up in a world without having a computer before they came into my life. When they did it felt like I was a part of a secret world.
Less so these days of course.