I had a whatchacallit... a VIC-20. No tape drive, no printer, no back up, hook it up straight to the TV. Had to re-write any code from my own chicken-scratches on a piece of torn notebook paper every time I powered it off. It was something like 20 characters by 20 lines of text, "beep-boop" sound efects, maybe half a dozen colors, if that. I tried like mad to program it to play games like "Trek" and "SpaceWar", and I even worked on a simple-minded Q-Bert kind of thing, trying to fit everything into something like 5K of RAM.

Man, I loved that thing! I'm sure it would drive me mad today, but I had such a ball with that toy... ah, the good ol' days.

Captain Jack