OMG you lived my dream. In 1976 I was 14 years old and started programming for the first time on the PLATO SYSTEM (university of illinois), the first computer with plasma screens, 1000 terminals, SOCIAL NETWORKS, MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR (it was called airfight was the name back then), the FIRST DUNGEON GAME (pedit5 / dnd). As I mowed lawns I dreamed of buying an HP-25 or SR-52 calculator or maybe an IMSAI 8080 computer of my own so badly! I eventually taught PLATO how to simulate a pocket football game, and wrote BASIC programs using a toy interpreter but they didn't have a way to store programs when your session was finished! :-(
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