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Written by Antti Vähä-Sipilä :donor: on 2024-11-26 at 06:23

The difference of being a Finnish or West German fourth-grader in 1984?

This hypothetical German fourth-grader had articles like this that showed how to make #C64 BASIC run faster: https://www.64er-magazin.de/8412/basic.html

The Finnish fourth-grader learned that the only copy of our local library’s Programmer’s Reference Guide had been stolen, and had no money to buy one.

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Written by Lars Wirzenius on 2024-11-26 at 06:29

@avs I think that will have varied. The three public libraries in my home town I frequented as a teenager had together more than one shelf meter of books about programming, including several introductions to BASIC, as well as a bunch of basic to intermediate text books on computer science. I may have been lucky.

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Written by Wintermute_BBS on 2024-11-26 at 06:37

@avs not entirely correct: a certain german fourth grader had to make do with an unexpanded VIC-20 while all the other kids already had a C64 ...

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