![]() PBASIC is fairly primitive and reminds me a lot of programming in commodore basic. What really makes it retro however, is PBASIC. Windows 7 came out in 2009, so that puts the kit closer to 2010, or they just didn’t update the software. The copyright in the instruction manual says “2003-2010” which means at least the design of this kit is between ten and seventeen years old. You can see some of this evidence with the sample laptop and system requirements here: So our friends’ kids probably had this kit sitting around for many years. ![]() My wife estimated that this was a hand-me-down from when my son was about 3 years old and he’s now thirteen. This seemed like a great opportunity to make use of something that has sat on the shelf for quite a while. I love sharing my hobbies with my kids, whether its programming or pen and paper RPGs. Which incidentally, are the keywords I’m using to tag this blog post. But finally, I took it off the shelf, dusted it off and then suddenly realized that we had stumbled on to three of my interests: We then forgot about it for a few months. I asked my 13-year old son if he wanted to put it together sometime and he said yes. In one of our decontamination episodes with my youngest son’s room, we found this box sitting on his shelf with all his board games, unopened and unused: ![]() Our home is a very loving, but very lived in space. Something that may not be obvious from other articles is that my house is a mess.
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