Bet the word processor on it felt about as fast/slow as MS Word is on a Vista box these days.
On 7/4/07 20:07, "Paul Rodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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> > Regards, Dan _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
