ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2017 Entry 17th September 2017: Post: 4 What we gonna do now is go back: Part 2 OK I didn't have a rose tinted filter so I fitted the beige filter instead to give the sense of age... Scooby Doo moment Time was when we actually needed the books There was no other way of feeding the computer No such thing as downloading.. Everything had to be typed in by hand And yes there was still that edge to some publications but inside was just hardcore words Hundreds of lines of the things People looked at me gone out when I was reading pages of this on the bus That's why they put girls on the front, to disguise our nerdy little secrets I mean it took all night to load this in And you really needed the books. No internet remember .. so play you had to learn Endless codes and scripts and instructions Maths suddenly became very very fashionable And you really needed to know what all the keys actually did. And those keys had so many different uses And the books were even ring bound or hard bound depending on your preference All well thumbed and covered in scribbles Very good years Suddenly words like LET and LOAD and IF took on whole new significance. You really needed to know the difference in what this BASIC language all meant. Because in truth it gave you real power The power came from the code. And that meant knowing how to break the rules. Sinclair new that and that is why the Spectrum was different to the other computers. It allowed you to break the rules. Worked as intended. I mean kids in their bedrooms were PEEKING and POKING and moms and dads hadn't got a clue what they were up to And then there were the peripherals. I mean the joystick was in its infancy. There was no gamepads of wifi controllers. We are at the very dawn here. And it was so exciting The tools may have been basic but they were capable of doing so much The kit was growing and so too was the user base who demanded it And so the demand for the written word and the guides to make the fun happen became a significant factor and so shops stores set aside great areas for the new technology. This was a new era and everyone sensed things were changing Informative and fun and leading toward so many possibilities. And the books were endless So many claiming to educate in the art of BASIC which almost became a universal langauge amongst the kids . Word !! And so the revolution had truly begun and for those at the birth it really did feel that way. There was no doubt that something big had happened and things would never be the same again.

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