On Fri 18 Oct 2019 at 23:22:37 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Doug McGarrett wrote: > > [...] and I learned to use BASIC. > > And ? Any recognizable damage left ? :o) > > > (This was in the days when we had > > an acoustic modem and a Teletype machine, and the mainframe was > > 1500 miles away!) > > I had a color tv and a VIC-20 on the couch table. > > > Later, I learned a "real" language, Pascal. > > Arghh. Get hot water ! Get some disinfectant ! Get some iodine ! > > The only right way is to work down from a BASIC on ROM, which is said to > have in part been coded by William Henry Gates III himself, to a self-made > assembler, and then back to Rocky Mountain BASIC on HP desktops.
Ah, our annual nostalgia trip! I'll save some typing: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/08/msg00949.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/08/msg00993.html Cheers, David.