My first computer was a TRS-80 32k. It also had the CTR-41 tape deck with data transfer at roughly the speed of a good typist. I learned BASIC by copying shor

My first computer was a TRS-80 32k. It also had the CTR-41 tape deck with data transfer at roughly the speed of a good typist. I learned BASIC by copying short word game programs from magazines and just playing around with it. Things have certainly changed in the last 40 years.