Subj : list.com
To   : AKAcastor
From : Skylar
Date : Wed Apr 17 2024 19:10:53

  Re: list.com
  By: AKAcastor to Ed Vance on Wed Apr 17 2024 05:40 pm

 >  EV> Never could make the floppy drive format one of the disks.
 >  EV> When the test finished I learned the blank disk had been formatted.
 >
 > This spirit of experimentation is familiar to me, I can't count how many
 > times over the years I didn't know what I was doing and just TRIED THINGS
 > and stumbled onto a solution for a problem.

Wow, this brings back memories.

My first experience was using a Commodore PET in my school's library to play "educational games". The games were loaded from a casette (or dataset in Commodore speak). But I wanted to learn how to create those games...

I was able to find a book on BASIC and started bringing a cassette tape with me to school. I have no idea how many days I was confused and disappointed because the code that I wrote the day before would not load from the tape.

I know it took several days for me to figure out that the SAVE command (and record button) was needed *once I was ready to save*. I was typing SAVE, pressing the record button, and then type type type... expecting my program to be written to the tape as I typed it! :D :D :D

Oh, the things we laugh at now.
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