Amazing. What memories. I am not a programmer but my first steps in computing were related to MSXBasic, QBasic, Pascal. Programs that you had to program first and then use that programming to get the results. They ran on 51/4 inch 512 byte disks and then on 31/2 inch disks with a capacity of 1.4 Mb. MSXBasic ran on a smart keyboard with a black and white monitor. And having an Ltel computer was a luxury. So many memories!!!
Thanks for bringing them to my mind.