QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64
QBasic was my first programming experience.<p>Back in 2008 I bought a computer for 50 uruguayan pesos (around 2 dollars), Pentium MMX and 32MB of ram. It didn't boot W98 because the hard drive was corrupted.<p>It did load MsDOS and I found Qbasic using the help command.<p>I didn't have internet so I used to go to the internet cafe with a floppy disk and download tons of tutorials in plain text to read with EDIT.EXE<p>Now I've been working as a software developer for almost five years and love it, all thanks to QBasic and that old cheap computer.