You could try an apple ][ emulator like gsplus.  Or a C64 emulator (here is
an online one:
https://c64online.com/c64-online-emulator/ )
  Those both have native BASIC right?

You guys are all like, “Back in the day, when I was a teenager, before I
had status before I had a pager…”
https://youtu.be/qDKrJhNOygA


On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:28 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > In HS (several decades ago), I wrote a matchmaking program for our senior
> > prom that crashed the dialup GE computer (ran out of memory) we used to
> > run Basic programs. Shhh.....I resorted to secretly matching everyone
> with
> > his/her boyfriend by hand....I was considered a computer genius until the
> > teacher in charge of the dialup account got a call from some very irate
> > folks at GE who threatened to remove the dial up terminal and paper tape
> > reader if we ever crashed their computer again.....he had my back and no
> > one found out. lol
>
> Mark,
>
> When I did my MS at the Univ. of Illinois decades ago, I wrote a FORTRAN V
> ecosystem energy model of a lake for an ecosystem modeling course I took.
> The code filled two boxes of 80-column Hollerith cards.
>
> Toward the end of each semester we grad students needed access to the IBM
> 360's remote job terminals; my lab was in the Natural History Building and
> the nearest RJE was next door in the Chemistry Building. The CS100/101
> students waited until the last minute to run their projects and blocked
> access to the card reader and line printer in the RJE. And we needed to
> access the 360 at the Chicago Medical campus for our research.
>
> So I'd often get a call in my lab asking me to run the model. As soon as I
> had acess to the card reader and fed in the two boxes of Hollerith cards it
> maxed out the S360 and locked out the RJE for a long time before printing
> output about 3 inches thick of green-bared wide line printer paper. The CS
> students gave up and went elsewhere. I killed my model job and let other
> grad students use the RJE.
>
> Grad student fun and games.
>
> Rich
>
>

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