Subj : Cash for coin..
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Oct 30 2025 10:14:25

> myself out of parts. Within 2 years I was writing commercial software.
> In 1986 I got an IBM and had to learn a new Basic Dos to carry on with
> things.  GW Basic in Canada..  (Guelph Waterloo University)

I never knew that is where the name came from.  My first MS-DOS computer
came with v3.3 and GWBASIC was the basic interpreter that came installed
with it.

I cannot remember which interpreter came with 5.0, though.

> EV>When I used SLMR EDIT was the Editor that I used with it

> Yes, I think that was what most used. Q-Edit was a more advanced Editor
> to work with so I switched over to it right away.

I used Q-Edit from fairly early on, before any of the BBSes I called
offered QWK mail.  I started using it because the editor I had been using,
PC-Write, didn't save things in plain text.  Back then, DOS came with EDLIN
but not yet EDIT.

I still used PC-Write for things that need to be printed, like reports for
university.  I could add things like page breaks and, IIRC, even some control
characters for my Star printer.  ;)

Mike

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