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Wildgoose on Sept 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sir Clive Sinclair has died

Agreed. I taught myself to program on my Acorn Atom, I still remember the "Aha!" moment when I finally understood what I needed to make a simple "Space Invaders" program on my (minimal) 2K Acorn Atom, (later sold by "Bug Byte" software).

marcus_holmes on Sept 17, 2021 [–]

I wrote a version of Missile Command that I got reasonably working, until we got called down for tea and my cousin "helpfully" turned the computer off.

I still give him shit for it

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