ORIGINAL: blw
Ed, it's all different now. Hams homebrewed equipment way back when. I got into home computers in 1982 and hardly anybody didn't write programs even when buying games, etc. The market for various BASICs, FORTRANs, C, C++, and assembly languages was bursting at the seams.
Hope I didn't start a war here....
You didn't start a war with me, Barry.
I too was writing programs in BASIC back in the very early eighties, although my forte was modifying programs that had been written by someone else, to do what I wanted them to do.
Ed Cregger