LIVING' LIFE ON THE SX28

摘要

It occurred to me the other day that I've been programming in one form of Basic or another for over 25 years now ... wow, that seems like a long time! I taught myself to program on the venerable Timex-Sinclair 1000, my first "real" computer, which I purchased in the fall of 1981. One of my favorite TS-1000 programs was a version of Conway's Game of Life — a simple artificial life simulation. I used to start the program before work and was always excited to come home and see if the "colony" was still evolving, had reached a state of equilibrium, or had just died. Honestly, I was always saddened when the latter event occurred — imagine being saddened by the "death" of a simulated cell colony ... welcome to my wackiness!