[AudieMurphy]

Great article and great thread. Thanks for posting this.

That article mentions all my old favorites. Back in the day, I learned to program on a green screened Apple II and later got a Commodore Vic20 for Christmas. Yeah, I was jealous of you C64 guys. BASIC was loads of fun, and later in life when I had some projects that could only be solved with a custom computer program, I went out and found Qbasic and later Visual Basic to get the job done. I'm really glad that I spent a year staring at those green screens while Mrs. Owen taught me the mysteries of Apple Basic. It has served me well.

Course, new functionality was often wasted on me. It was a long time before I actually used an ELSE statement because we didn't have that animal when I stared out, and I was still numbering my lines in increments of ten long after there was no need to do so.

Ah, the good ol' days. Software was scarce and it was a Garbage In/Garbage Out world. Mountain Dew kept us awake all night and Doritos kept us alive so we could finish those clunky programs. Sigh. It almost brings a tear to the eye.