life before Emacs
the early years 1962 Entered the world as I intend to leave it. Kicking, screaming, naked, held upside down by a nurse slapping me on the backside. a night at the Lesser Free Trade Hall 1977 Wrote my first basic program in BASIC on a Tandy TRS-80. Editing facilities were fairly limited. I think to modify Line 10, you had to simply re-enter Line 10. In its entirety. This was rather time consuming, tiresome and almost put me off computers for life. ...