[earth_walker]

When I was a kid my school got a Sinclair ZX81 with 1k of memory. One 1k computer for the whole school! Once in a blue moon we would get class time on the computer - Our class got to program a 'turtle' to draw shapes on a big piece of paper.

I was so excited about it, and my mom had done some punch-card programming in university and so knew that this was going to be the future.

The Sinclair Spectrum 48k had just come out, and so we splurged and bought one.

We lived in Asia at the time, and games on cassette were difficult to get, so at 10 years old I spent hours typing in BASIC games from magazines, debugging and POKEing and PEEKing to see how things worked.

Great times.

[DougN7]

We must be nearly the same age. I remember entering pages of poke codes from a magazine for a game on my Commodore 64. Those really were great (if tedious) times :)