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Red Ochsenbein (he/him) • Edited

When I was 9 we had a Philips G7000 (Magnavox Odyssey 2 outside of Europe) gaming console at home. My father bought a somewhat strange "game" cartridge: "09 Computer Programmer" and I wanted to see what this game was about. When starting it I was greeted with a blinking cursor. I tried to find out, what it does, so I started typing stuff from the manual... and changing/breaking it... until I was able to write my own little programs. It turns out I learned Assembly along the way.
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