Subj : Re: I want to do something retro...
To   : Bob Worm
From : AKAcastor
Date : Tue Jul 02 2024 12:05:44

 > I remember trying to get some Sinclair BASIC 
 > programs running in Microsoft
 > GW-BASIC in DOS, I'd never seen a ZX Spectrum in my life.

 BW> I think you had more luck making Sinclair type-ins work 
 BW> on DOS than I ever did on my aunt's Sinclair. That 
 BW> awful BASIC where you had to have the cursor in keyword 
 BW> mode and press "P" for "PRINT" - don't *type* "PRINT", 
 BW> that won't work. Oh, you did it again. Oh and now the 
 BW> whole line is muffed and actually now that I look, so 
 BW> is that one 3 lines ago.

Oh no.  I didn't realize the depths of the depravity of Sinclair BASIC.  I've always been curious about the ZX Spectrum but now I must re-evaluate whether it is a curiousity or a curse.

 BW> 35 years on and I'm still extraordinarily furious just 
 BW> thinking back to that. And to think, people loved those 
 BW> things. What's wrong with people?

Seems like we heard "inexpensive computers" and our brains shut off while we sat in front of those terribly frustrating underpowered uncomfortable gadgets. (I feel like that was a kind of genre of computers in the 80s, and I wanted them all.)


Chris/akacastor

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