[jefc1111]

For me, all this ... computer life stuff ... started with an Acorn Electron around 40 years ago. At first it was just fun, and then I played Elite and it feels like a lot of my future was defined in that experience.

[aardvark179]

That’s how I started as well. Much nicer to program than the spectrum, and taught me about parsing in the worst way when I discovered my text adventure couldn’t have a variable called torch because it was. Parsed as to rch.

[LoganDark]

> and taught me about parsing in the worst way when I discovered my text adventure couldn’t have a variable called torch because it was. Parsed as to rch.

"to rch" reminds me of the "x goes to 0" meme: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-oper...

[simonjgreen]

Ditto. Electron and Elite with a voltmace joystick that (memory may be hazy) had like 20 buttons on it was mind blowing to child me.

[tolien]

Same, and now I'm still playing Elite but just with slightly better graphics :-D