[mlitchard]

Someone donated pet commodores to all the libraries in my county. My mother would go visit my sister at work every Sunday. across the street was one of those libraries. My mother happily dropped me off as trying to keep a 12 year old boy from being annoying was a tall order, and I certainly had no trouble being a whiny brat when bored. Along with the computers were some games, one of them being a roguelike. The librarian knew the load and run commands, enough to get me started. I discovered the break key, and list command on my own. I had an intuition that the code listed could be manipulated, therefore if I learned BASIC I could rule the game. There was a manual on PET BASIC on the shelves, and that was that.