William Winter, Author at Old School Gamer Magazine

Learning to Code in 1980: A Book, BASIC, and Pure Persistence

by William Winter | Apr 8, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Apple 2, Retro Computing

Here is a story about how I learned to code at age 13. How most of us learned. I was 13 in 1980. Back then, at home, our family had an Apple II Plus, but not a lot of software – especially we had very few games to play. But pretty much every computer had BASIC...

A Scorpion Behind the Rock – Then and Now

by William Winter | Mar 30, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Apple 2, Retro Computing

Over the years I’ve worked in the business software industry, I’ve had the pleasure of working on and off with a particular friend I’ve known since high school in the 1980s. One day, just a little while back, while working together in a meeting with engineering and...

Learning to Code in 1980: A Book, BASIC, and Pure Persistence

A Scorpion Behind the Rock – Then and Now

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