Subj : Re: BBC Micros
To   : hyjinx
From : JoE DooM
Date : Tue Feb 08 2022 13:37:17

 > Sorry I only just saw this now, I've been terrible over the xmas break
 > for
 > not being around BBS-land at all.

Ditto. haha :)

 > They were absolutely brilliant. I spent so much time with them in the
 > classroom, learning BBC basic. Aside from QuickBasic (which came out
 > _maaany_
 > years later), BBC basic was the best basic around IMO.

Yeah I was amazed by playing with the emulator that a lot of the features
that I thought were very clever in the 32bit Archimedes' were in the 8bit
machines too!

Hope your two beebs are going well now and I look forward to having my
own one day..

You're right about the cost of shipping from the UK for them... And
some things are taking forever... Just before Xmas, I paid US$72 for some
c64 carts with 3-5 day shipping. Well, they arrived on the 5th of Feb.. :p


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