On Apr 7, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Tim Jones wrote: >> My first experience at home with BASIC was on the Atari-800 in 1981. > > I think that you win overall (if we're not talking Bovine BASIC), but > I did PRINT my name on the TRS-80 Model 1 in Fall, 1977 for Home use.
I think I was in 5th grade and we were taught how to program Atari 800s & 400s. My parents bought me a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 which had a Microsoft BASIC. I insisted on 64k of RAM but lost out on the disk drive, so I had to settle for cassette. Switched schools and taught myself BASIC on the Apple][s there. I upgraded to a CoCo 3 and eventually a 5MB hard drive when I taught myself Basic09 for OS-9 Level II. I kept that machine until the early 90s when I traded my used SNES for a used Mac IIcx. In college I had Windows thrust upon me where I learned VB5 & 6/C++/Java. Somewhere in there I found Cross Basic/REALbasic. Christian Pariahware, Inc. Custom Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pariahware.com> -- God loved you so much that He gave His only son Jesus. What have you done with God's gift? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
