When I was a kid, I briefly had a friend who built the first computer I ever saw. I long ago forgot the friend's name, but I remember the name he gave the computer: Laurie (after Laurie Partridge, natch). It had one simple Star Trek game that somehow involved acquiring and shooting photon torpedoes. — Read the rest The post 10 PRINT "NOSTALGIA", 20 GOTO 10 – Wired reminisces about BASIC appeared first on Boing Boing.