My exact memory. When you did finally get everything correct, the program could take 15 minutes to load from the cassette tape. I remember upgrading my Commodore 64 with a floppy disk and loading programs in 2 minutes (which felt instantaneous by comparison).
Generally similar story. I was in college and working part-time for a structural engineering company in the mid 80s as a manual drafter. We got a contract that required drawings be submitted in electronic (DWG) format. Because I was the "young" guy and had taken a couple programming classes, the partners asked if I was willing to learn AutoCAD and become the company's CAD drafter. At the time it was not an obvious yes answer. CAD drafting was not universally accepted as viable and people at my company, and within the industry, considered CAD as the last bastion for incompetent drafters. After I said yes the "old" veteran drafter at the company told me I was wasting my time and making a career mistake. I taught myself Lisp in order to make the most of the opportunity, and now 40 years later, the vast majority of my career has been spent inside AutoCAD, drawing and programming many, many lines of Lisp code.
>Granting the creator such rights takes them away from everyone else. Why is that justified? Why should one person, the creator, be able to tell other people what they can and cannot do?
Where does this argument end? Why can't I drive your car whenever I want? Is your "ownership" of your car really more valid than my ownership of something that I invested significant time and effort (maybe even money) to create, and if so, why?
