I often wonder about this. As a kid, I had enough time to sit and wait until the cassette tape stopped loading. Later, when I started experimenting with assembler on my Amiga, my try,crash,retry from scratch style didn't put me off. Information was hard to find too, so I spent an enormous amount of time prodding the system to see what would happen.
But what about parents back in those days? How were they able to get anything done on a computer with only a few hours (at maximum) to spend on it a day?
As far as i remember most did not get much done in a practial sense as the computer was mostly occupied by the kids. My uncle was using word perfect which was a bit of an improvement to the typewriter though but then again he did not have kids. :)
But what about parents back in those days? How were they able to get anything done on a computer with only a few hours (at maximum) to spend on it a day?