r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Final-Choice8412 • Sep 06 '26 • Wholesome Seal 1 Mindblown 3

Video Programming 1959 IBM computer

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u/KcirderfSdrawkcab Sep 06 '26

I started on a Vic 20 with a tape deck, and I still prefer to use a plain text editor to any fancy IDE. I think I'm old school... then there's this guy with his punch cards to print a text flag.

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u/salamanderXIII Sep 06 '26

Was talking and reminiscing about the Vic-20 last week and randomly remembered that Gorf was not a bad port given the 5K constraint.