>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.
Let me get my word in before this topic is nipped in the bud. I first used BASIC in 1973 on an ASR Teleprinter on a Burroughs B5700 mainframe. A wonderful computer, that serviced the entire university campus, with multiple card readers, printers, teleprinters, etc. It had 32K words of RAM (albeit 48-bit words) and a 4MB disk drive the size of a small car, and an OS written in Algol. Ah, the memories (so to speak). Paul Rodman _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
