How I started. Commodore 64 programming, learning unix, doing network programming, finding IRC, creating #curl and then even more curl.
On the #Sourcegraph #podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLtqHFxEDm8
@bagder I wish we still had a CPU that was approacheable for beginners, like Z80 or LSI-11. No massive firmware to start up, no million registers to set DRAM modes in the chipset, but not as limited and finicky as ATmel in Arduino. I heard some people still use 6502 for that, which is pretty cool, but I don't know the details.
@pro @bagder 6502, and 65816 are commonly used like that. Ben Eater on youtube did a series with the 6502, and the 8-bit guy made his computer with the 65816, IIRC. Both are still manufactured as far as I know. I think there's still people building computers with Z80's as well. I follow one person at @rc2014
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