Her First Commodore VIC-20 BASIC Program! retroKat Reactions.
retroKat, a 20s-something marketing professional, reacts to the Commodore VIC-20 for the first time, enters a "hello world, BASIC program, and then follows up with the famous 10 PRINT BASIC program. It's a blast to watch my daughter experience my very first computer and many of her reactions are the same I had back in the 1980s.
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Time Codes:
00:00 - Start
00:09 - Video Bumper
00:20 - Video Setup
01:16 - Turning on TheVIC20
01:26 - BASIC Screen and retroKat's Reaction
01:40 - retroKat's First Keystrokes and Syntax Error
02:17 - retroKat's First Out of Data Error
02:23 - retroKat's First BASIC Program
03:48 - retroKat RUNs her First BASIC Program
04:29 - Time to Edit the Program
05:09 - retroKat Tries to RUN the Program
06:28 - retroKat Tries Her Own Program
07:46 - A User's Manual Would be Helpful
08:53 - retroKat's First FOR/NEXT Loop
10:52 - Using CTRL to Slow the Program Operation
11:43 - retroKat Pauses for Insta-Time
12:04 - retroCombs Adds Color to the Program
13:25 - NEW Program Time
15:38 - retroKat's First NEW Command
16:01 - A Little Bit of Commodore History
17:11 - 10 PRINT Program Time
19:13 - retroKat Modifies the 10 PRINT program
20:44 - retroKat Ponders the BREAK Command
21:09 - Comparing the VIC-20 to other Commodore Models
22:38 - Summing Up
23:20 - retroKat OUT!
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