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17 Years. This is the source code of the first "game" I wrote in 1997, in QBasic:

Cool. I wish I'd kept some of the ZX Spectrum programs I wrote. I tried a few times by using my hi-fi as the tape out. But then my mom would clean my room and reset it by accidentally knocking it over.

Almost as traumatic as when she dismantled my Lego Technic car with working gearbox to dust it.

Loading a program on cassette was loud enough to get one banned from using the Spectrum. Plus, there was only one TV in the living room, which you needed for the Spectrum.

Add the two, and scaling meant buying another TV and migrating often between rooms.

Traumatic was when I (think I was the one who) finally burned it by plugging in the wrong power supply, decades later.

This is the code one never forgets. On which computer did you write this in? I remember to have started coding on a Tandy TR-80... how time flies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80

It would have been an i486, this was in the mid-nineties. I was twelve at the time. I kept all of my code, it still runs in DOSBox.

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