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I had one of these as a kid. It was awesome!! I believe it was my first exposure to programing. I even have a picture of me with it. Plaid shirts and programming. Not much has changed in ~40 years.

https://blog.buildbotics.com/content/images/2018/12/1-oeEOUx...

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I always forget that this was my first programming experience :)

Yes I had this too. Unfortunately it didn't support conditions or loop IIRC :)

It has very, very basic loop functionally. A repeat function would be more accurate.

Drive round the living room, fire laser (n) times to get dad's attention, wait for dad to load it with peanuts, drive back. That was a very good xmas.

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