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Commodore 64 bought with a paper route money.

Sub poll, who's first program looked like this?

10 print "Mike Rocks"

20 goto 10

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Funny, my first was similar, in Apple ][ BASIC. When I was in 7th grade, a friend (still to this day) and I had a typing class which used Apple ][s. One day we had a substitute teacher in who knew absolutely nothing about computers. I decided it would be funny to prank her so I wrote something like:

    10 PRINT "GOVERNMENT ACCESS ONLY: THE FBI HAS BEEN CONTACTED"
    20 FLASH
    30 GOTO 10

I called her over with a worried face and said "I don't know what happened!" I could see her heart skip a beat as her eyes bugged out.

We quickly started snickering and admitted it was just a joke. She laughed it off and was a good sport about it.

The advanced Apple ][ trick was to make the line 13 characters long and add the concatenation ; at the end:

  10 PRINT "I AM COOL!   ";
  20 GOTO 10

On a 40-character text display, amazing things happen...

Same here - I was influenced in my first BASIC program by the Wargames movie and "Firefox" (Clint Eastwood, not Mozilla) and had a password protected diagram of an ascii uber figher jet.

Oh yes. 7th grade lines on the Apple IIe:

  10 FOR I = 1 to 100
  20 PRINT "I WILL NOT SPEAK OUT OF TURN IN CLASS. I WILL FOLLOW CLASS RULES"
  30 NEXT I

"That is fantastic that you can type all of that out on your typewrite Michael. Well done." (The concept of Dot Matrix wasn't even well known initially and perhaps bad lenses).

Yep. Did this on the BBC Master in school. The teacher wan't happy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master

It would have looked something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj2NOTanzWI

yeah those c-64's were a lot of fun, but man I must have had 2-3 die on me so I ended up on Atari 400 (eventually when I could buy the 800 I upgraded).

Star Raiders in an emu is still pretty incredible.

#FTW! then was making the thing pop sounds and draw :)

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