I thought I could develop “Astro Boy”

My first program was developed when I was a second grader of a junior high school. It was for participating in a programming contest of a Japanese computer magazine called I/O. The quesiotion was about 6502 assembler which was used in AppleII. I remember the answer should be written in hexadecimal.

I had never seen 40 pin tips at that time, let alone micro computers. My young heart was filled with longings for computer.

In the next year, a NEC micro computer shop(like RadioShack) opened in the neighborhood of my school. Of course I dropped in there every after school. They allowed to use the demo machine TK80BS for free of charge anyone who signed on the member list. There were always lots of junior high school students. I was so happy to go there.

And thought, “It’s impossible to develop AstroBoy with this machine…”

-Fujita