Subj : Card trick or back to basics To : Joe Delahaye From : mark lewis Date : Tue Aug 15 2017 07:59:04 On 2017 Aug 14 21:24:34, you wrote to Roger Nelson: RN>> Because it's not IBM BASIC. JD> No, its better . I dont think that IBM wrote Basic, nor DOS. That JD> was all M$. I know there were diffrent versions of Basic. I used on JD> on the CoCo. [quote] BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." Originally designed as an interactive mainframe timesharing language by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz in 1963, it became widely used on personal computers everywhere. On IBM's first "family" computer, the PCJr, a BASIC cartridge was a popular add-on. Because of its simplicity, BASIC has frequently been used in teaching the introductory concepts of programming with a working language. [/quote] one of my clients in virginia had a timeshare machine... not a huge mainframe but more of what they called a mini... WxLxH maybe 3'x4'x4' in size... BASIC was it's OS... t'was quite fun to play with... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... A mind stretched by new ideas can never go back to its original size. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .