Back in 2008 I bought a computer for 50 uruguayan pesos (around 2 dollars), Pentium MMX and 32MB of ram. It didn't boot W98 because the hard drive was corrupted.
It did load MsDOS and I found Qbasic using the help command.
I didn't have internet so I used to go to the internet cafe with a floppy disk and download tons of tutorials in plain text to read with EDIT.EXE
Now I've been working as a software developer for almost five years and love it, all thanks to QBasic and that old cheap computer.
Back in 2008 I bought a computer for 50 uruguayan pesos (around 2 dollars), Pentium MMX and 32MB of ram. It didn't boot W98 because the hard drive was corrupted.
It did load MsDOS and I found Qbasic using the help command.
I didn't have internet so I used to go to the internet cafe with a floppy disk and download tons of tutorials in plain text to read with EDIT.EXE
Now I've been working as a software developer for almost five years and love it, all thanks to QBasic and that old cheap computer.