I was first introduced to the wonderful world of programming when I was 9 years old (46 years ago as of this writing). My middle school had just gotten some Franklin Ace 2000s (Think Apple IIe clone) and my father bought us a Commodore 64 for the house. While my siblings were most interested in playing games on the Commodore I wanted to program. Armed with books like Jim Butterfield's 'Machine Language for the Commodore 64' I began writing my own BASIC wedges and creating portable software from the Commodore 64 to the Apple IIe (which had similar CPUs in the 6502 family based on the Z80). I loved programming. It gave me a space that I felt like I had some control and my life was not just a tail spin of undesirable events.
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