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10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
Basic?
@Ellico2020bis LOL I just went to see if my old Basic programming text was still around - can't find it but did find this
@NorthernInvader I don't seem to have the image of my personal copy handy, but the best programming text ever was "A FORTRAN Coloring Book"
@Ellico2020bis I needed the batch file book for working on my old BBS back in the early 90s. Damn .bat file printed out to IIRC 12 pages :)
@NorthernInvader I never dealt with a bat file that long, even on DEC VMS! I first used the FORTRAN book on a PDP-8, while still in elementary school.
@Ellico2020bis Well my BBS was connected to about 6 other BBS networks and getting it to dial them up at regular times to exchange netmail and game updates (I had quite a few games on it that were played over the various star networks I was connecting to), then process everything was (for me) a bit of challenge.
I ran it first on a Packard Bell 386 SX16 16MHz processor, 1MB of RAM and 120MB HDD. given everything I ran on it at the time I ran into a number or IRQ conflicts
@NorthernInvader When I first married, spouse had a "Leading Edge" XT/8088. The next computer we bought was a 386SX/16, though I paid extra to get 2MB RAM, which was useful only as a RAM-drive at the time, really. The next computer was a Packard Bell 486/DX2-66.
The quietest hard drive I ever had was a 110MB Seagate I bought off a BBS for the 386, 11ms seek wasn't bad then, either. Still have it (not in use, obvs).
@NorthernInvader We paid $800 for that computer, JFC, in 1991 dollars. That was a friggin investment.