Davd Brin wrote:
I want to move a DOT using a simple mathematicall algorithm. I have examples in books. Why can I not show this to my son? It is EXACTLY what Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and Wozniak did.
I still have at least one, possibly two, PC-8201A "portable" computers, which have a BASIC implementation that was the last piece of code Bill Gates worked on. They have 8K of memory, a four or six-line display and you use a tape recorder to save your programs... but I think they still work. Would something like that do it?
You might also look for an emulator of such a machine. There are emulators for all sorts of old systems around. I was just reading the other day about a PDP-11 emulator, which would run BASIC as you describe, once you got past the OS. I think I still remember a bit of RSTS and TOPS-10...
Nick
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