Comment by drawkward

This is where my programming journey began! Somewhere, tucked away in a scrapbook, is a handwritten set of BASIC instructions I wrote around 1983 when I would have been about 6 (probably for an Apple IIe, not this computer).

My dad bought it with the stated intent of writing a program that would display ASCII art associated with a keypress, to help me learn the alphabet and reading (e.g., pressing "A" would have brought up an ascii art apple). He claimed that he was only able to make it halfway through the alphabet before running out of storage on the cassette tape.

He would later go on to be a sysadmin at Cleveland FreeNet (as a hobby), and in the early 1980s was the first principal to put a "computer lab" in our local high school.

I have many fond memories of playing Munch Man (and, I think, Parsec) on this home computer.