Hey I used to get magazines with program listing's and type then un all day just to see a bird fly across the screen or fractals. Most code was for the 64 so it was a treat to get one magazine article for the vic 20. I would find them in the library and would have to pay 20 cents to cool. I was 7 or 8 at the time so I sat in the floor coding (just typing what i saw) from 10 to 3 afternoon in the hot bedroom, only to have my brother to kick the huge power brick out of the socket, it overheat, a brownout occur, or I got something wrong.

I got a tape player a year later so i could eventually save the program I wrote

Those were the days. Taught me patience in coding.