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 1984
Age 9
Commodore 64
Taught myself BASIC
1984
Age 9
Commodore 64
Taught myself BASIC

 Don’t forget to wait for this screen before you press the shutdown button.
Don’t forget to wait for this screen before you press the shutdown button.
Year 7 maths in 1984 - the teacher had a computer and showed us some BASIC commands to do mathematics.
I was spellbound. That year my father also bought a Commodore 64 for the family and I gravitated towards it. I typed program listings out of magazines and learnt programming almost by osmosis.
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