Getting Rid of Dell Bloatware. 1832

You have me beat as far as owning a computer earlier than the first one I owned, but the first one I programmed on was a Commodore Pet. I was one of the top math students in my city so I got to go to a special summer program to use Commodore Pet BASIC to solve math programs.

The Pet also used cbuttettes, I think the screen "resolution" was 40 colums wide (or less, I remember I was so impressed with the Commodore 80 and wanted to have one). There wasn't a place for any cartridge.

Of course I was very young when I attended that. In fact, let's see, that was 3 years prior to my birth date so it was very challenging :-) and I had to make liberal retroactive use of virtual concepts to achieve that.

The instructor, whoever it was (I think I remember his name -- I do remember him vividly), deserves a LOT of credit for putting that clbutt together. We were solving integrals using a random number generator that counted whether randomly generated x and y points were above or below the value of a function -- really neat and just what I needed to move my young brain in the right direction.

We also did multi-dimensional arrays, and that's when I decided to become a computer programmer. Now I've come to my senses :-) I can do it very well, but I'm not a big fan of self-imposed mental torture.

Journey