Sinclair BASIC

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1979)

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jorjun

parsley72

hexdump42

tartley

jtauber

abtin

deep

drakkos

vvarp

larry

adityo

vitaliyf

barneyboo

jorjun - 7 years

parsley72 - 6 years

hexdump42 - 3 years

tartley - 6 years

jtauber - 3 years

abtin - 2 years

deep - 4 years

drakkos - 40 years

vvarp - 6 years

larry - 37 years

adityo - 6 years

vitaliyf - 5 years

barneyboo - 7 years

jorjun

1979–1985

Not much on the ZX-80, but definitely dabbled on the 64K ZX-Spectrum, wasn't just about playing games devised by Brit. Matthew Smith-the-Genius.

parsley72

1980–1985

When I was 8 I went to a new school which had a computer room. My first program was copied from a magazine onto a ZX-81. Later our first family computer was also a ZX-81, bought for UKP 40 with vouchers collected from the Radio Times.

hexdump42

1981–1983

ZX-81

tartley

1983–1988

jtauber

1984–1986

Dabbled a bit in mid-80s as many of my friends in Brunei had these when I had my Apple IIe

abtin

1984–1985

drakkos

1985–

The language of the first computer I ever owned. Remember when magazines used to have code listings for entire games? Remember the awful autocomplete on the ZX 81? I still have the manual for this somewhere too.

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1994–2000

I would buy second-hand books about Sinclair BASIC then sit writing and tweaking every line of every program without being able to commit them to tape with the broken datacorder on the 128k +2. Probably the most romantic period of my programming life...

alelondon

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