Man, I cannot remember what the first thing I did was, but I do know I did it on a Tandy that was hooked up to my TV. My mom could not afford the then ubiquitous Atari 2600 so she got this thing from Radio Shack. It came with a cartridge for a game called dungeon and a another for BASIC. The best thing I remember writing was a trivia game that stumped my mom once. I was darn proud of that... 

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$mostLanguages = 'Designed for engineers by engineers.';
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In reply to RE: What was your first program? by jptxs
in thread What was your first program? by Ovid

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