[yesenadam]

> Mainly what I feel like is extremely JEALOUS that I wasn't born later. Imagine all the cool fucking shit you could have built as a kid instead of wasting your life trying to find a cracked version of Borland Turbo C that worked right.

Amen. I started programming in Turbo Pascal and Z80 assembler in the 80s, and never laid eyes on a manual, book or documentation about them, except for a few articles on assembler I read from magazines in libraries. I had one beginner Pascal book. Now I can instantly download any paper or book, then instantly download anything they reference. Most software is free too.. I love it, but it's hard not to imagine how very different my childhood would've been. I came across a copy of Zaks' fabled Programming the Z80 in a bookshop a few years ago, which I'd never seen before in person, and I was like My god, I would've given a leg for this 30 years ago.