Unrelated: I still get an unreasonable bit of joy whenever I see a picture of the manuals for Turbo Pascal and Turbo C.
(Which you can read online if you're so inclined: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturReferenceGuide1988_19310204)
@craigmaloney I still have the tattered TI Extended BASIC manual on my shelf that I learned to program with when I was 5-6
I don’t think I’ll ever let it go, even though the computer itself has been lost
@zigg Would you believe I have a shelf of old computer manuals, including the Atari Basic manual and tutorial from my first computer?
Something powerful about those old manuals.
@craigmaloney Oh, I would totally believe that. These are formative things, they left an outsized impression on us.
I’ve flipped the pages on occasion and am transported back to learning hex so I could create sprites…
@craigmaloney 35 years. Wow.
@craigmaloney My parents were in their twenties yet. _I_ barely remember my twenties. 😁
@zigg Yeah, my mind boggles at that.
I think the only things I remember about my twenties were working at WSU (which was awesome), moving to Ford, and finding Linux). Oh, and finding JoDee too. :)
