First Home Computer

I'm not technical, but...In 1982, I was gifted with my first home computer. The Commodore VIC-20 with 5K of RAM (which back then seemed like such a lot of memory to play around with). This computer started me off in the world of BASIC - Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (I think that's what it was). My first computer program was as follows:

10 PRINT 'COMMODORE VIC-20'

20 GOTO 10

Moving on from the simple stuff, I used to buy computer magazines that had free games included. But not as we know it today, these had to be typed in. And you could almost bet your life on it that it would never work first time. You had to search through hundreds of lines of code to find the typing error or even worse, you had to fix a bug.

This was legendary back in the day, and I felt like I had entered a secret world of the what I now know to be Geekdom.