On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
> Wesley Parish wrote:
>
> >I suppose - because they could. ;)
> >
> >Myself, I'm not a fan of BASIC, since having tried to learn it in order to
> >play around with graphics with the book "Microcomputer Graphics for the IBM
> >PC", whic was written in the bad old days of BASIC only on the PC.
> >
> >
> On the CeBIT last year they had an exhibition of old computers. There
> was one, I think it was a Commodore C64, which had only BASIC as ui,
> programming language. You had to use those old audio tapes for saving
> your data. It is hard to think that someone wrote programs on such a
> "computer". I wonder what people of my age will say in 30 years when
> they see a box similar to the ones we are using in a museum.
I still miss the line numbers.
Phil.
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