http://www.larrymahony.com/blog/2007/12/14/amstrad-6128-plus-computer/ A few thoughts from Larry Mahony Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.larrymahony.com/blog/2007/12/14/amstrad-6128-plus-computer/#comment-4344 karen Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:51:36 +0000 http://www.larrymahony.com/blog/2007/12/14/amstrad-6128-plus-computer/#comment-4344 My first computer was a Spectrum. It ran games through a tape recorder! To load a game, you'd insert the cassette tape into the tape recorder and press play.. then the loading screens would start... you'd see a white screen, then a red screen, then a blue screen repeat by 20 and then the game MIGHT if you were lucky complete loading. I remember writing BASIC programs also, but not sure if it was on our Spectrum or on my cousin's computer (which I can't remember the make of). Actually, when I was 11 in junior high in the US we had a computer class where we learned BASIC programming. I remember one of our project was to make a circle move around the screen... or something like that.. didn't you have to number the lines of code? 10, 20, 30.. and if you wanted to put a line of code in between 10 and 20, you'd number it 15.. or maybe 12 if you were feeling spontaneous! My first computer was a Spectrum. It ran games through a tape recorder! To load a game, you’d insert the cassette tape into the tape recorder and press play.. then the loading screens would start… you’d see a white screen, then a red screen, then a blue screen repeat by 20 and then the game MIGHT if you were lucky complete loading. I remember writing BASIC programs also, but not sure if it was on our Spectrum or on my cousin’s computer (which I can’t remember the make of). Actually, when I was 11 in junior high in the US we had a computer class where we learned BASIC programming. I remember one of our project was to make a circle move around the screen… or something like that.. didn’t you have to number the lines of code? 10, 20, 30.. and if you wanted to put a line of code in between 10 and 20, you’d number it 15.. or maybe 12 if you were feeling spontaneous!

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