Ah the memories. I loved them. My NSW high school used them (early to late 80s at least) and my friend's dad had one and we got into programming on them. When I wanted my own computer about 1986 that was the obvious and only choice. Experts could do amazing things with BASIC by embedding machine code routines into REM comment lines with POKE statements. I wrote mainly in BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Z80 assembler. I remember trying out Lisp and drawing a Mandelbrot set image on it. They were CP/M. I remember it said "Gary Kildall" on screen as it started up. I was programming on it until 2000! - I never had a computer with a mouse until then.
It was so different pre-internet - I never laid eyes on a book or manual on Turbo Pascal or Z80 assembler. I think I picked up crumbs from computer magazines in libraries.
It was so different pre-internet - I never laid eyes on a book or manual on Turbo Pascal or Z80 assembler. I think I picked up crumbs from computer magazines in libraries.