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       Back to BASICs
       By: alstan Date: June 20, 2011, 5:20 pm
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       Many us who are a little older first started our computing on
       the micro machines of 1980's
       
       These were usually based around a 6502 processor, Atari, BBC,
       Commodore and Spectrum were the favourites tho' there were
       plenty of other makes trying to capture a share of the market.
       My machine was an Atari 800XL, happens I've still got it up in
       the loft and every now and then dig it out for a play when the
       mood takes me.
       One of the attractions of these early machines was that most of
       them came with the BASIC programming language loaded in as
       standard.
       The beauty was that someone with almost no knowledge, a
       complete beginner, could soon be tapping in a few lines of code
       and be given the impression of taking control of a computer
       which at the time seemed pretty marvellous  considering up
       untill then computing machines had been in the realms of
       scientific instuments.
       There are of course several BASICs that will run on a PC but
       recently I have been taking a look at Microsoft Small Basic .
       Now, it's probably going to be of no interest whatsoever to
       anyone already proficient in any of the 'real' programming
       languages but if all your after is something with which to mess
       about on your computer and doesn't take too much head-scratching
       to learn then this may be for you.
       
       
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