G+_Scott B Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Happy Birthday BASIC 50 today http://time.com/69316/basic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Darryl Medley Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Happy B-day to my 1st language. Learned it on a Commodore PET (like they have at TWiT) in HS and on a VIC-20 at home in 1982. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Scott B Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 i started on a zx81 with a 16k ram pack and one game handed down from my brother 1982. started typing out the examples in the user guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_L I Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 My first experience with BASIC was at computer summer camp at the university in the 80s and then copying programs out of the back of Family Computing magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bob Samuelson Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 ... on a Commodore PET ... me 2 on a 8K version. added a printer, modem, and 5 1/4 dual floppy drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Russ Hall Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 BASIC was my first language, too, on the TRS-80 Model 100. It came with 8K RAM. After a bad lockup, it would show a blank menu and the date Jan. 1, 1900. Your data was gone, gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_L I Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I guess that's partly why they called it the Trash 80? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Russ Hall Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Learned a lot on that little machine and wrote several programs in BASIC. Some were published in national magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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