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 > >
