@CBMer
One of these guys tried to warn you, an ugly bunch at times here. But hope you'll let us know, very interesting.
In the day I'd go pick up my 'COMPUTE!' magazine at the grocery store and spend all Sat. punching in code to get some game to run on my Vic-20. A true geek, and I loved it. Even the debugging of my typos. Soon... it would work! And then I would modify it! Great era. Some had WWII, Others Woodstock. We got the home computer.
LOL!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute!