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It is hard to explain how different home computing was compared to business computing to anyone younger than the 80386 or so.
The Sinclairs and the Tandys and the Commodores and Ataris and Colecovisions and Texas Instruments were about enjoying yourself, maybe learning something, maybe playing a game. They mostly looked silly when they tried to do business-esque things because they weren't optimize for that.
They were designed to be part of your home.
@djsundog They were just as distant from business as they were from mainstream media as well. Convergence of computing and TV was something in the distant future. We only got a glimpse of what digital media could turn into much later when CD ROMs became more common in the 90s.
@h @djsundog wow what a thread ! Talk about nostalgia !
I never came around in learning assembly but I played a lot with Basic
Also I tried to run the Simon's Basic
It was an "extended" Basic interpreter , you could draw lines and circles with it
But my appliance couldn't load it and nobody knew why
I was too young, naive and isolated
Years later I found myself on a mailing list with Alan Kay's colleagues and thought nothing of that