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Post by Carl Gundel on May 24, 2021 16:21:52 GMT -5
I always wanted one of those (the RCA VIP version). I was also keenly interested in the Ohio Scientific Superboard II, but I've only ever seen them in magazines and online.
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Post by PaulDZ on May 24, 2021 23:28:29 GMT -5
What was your first BASIC? Mine was TRS-80 Level I BASIC. Courtesy of my local Radio Shack. Let's see if I can remember my first few BASICs. 1) TRS-80 Level I BASIC 2) PDP-8 Timeshare BASIC 3) Atari 2600 Cartridge BASIC 4) Commodore BASIC 5) Applesoft BASIC 6) GW-BASIC 7) Turbo BASIC 8) Power BASIC 9) (unmentionable BASIC variety) numerous other dialects and emulators (YBASIC, etc.) 10) Liberty BASIC
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jordi
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Post by jordi on May 25, 2021 15:31:47 GMT -5
Commodore Amiga Basic had speech too.
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Post by Rod on May 26, 2021 12:54:46 GMT -5
The Spektrum could speak. It required machine code but it was more of a rasp than speach. I persevered with machine code and managed to get the Spektrum to record and analyse audio. So I recorded two seconds of audio, sought out the quiet period then the noise and tried to match it against pre recorded words. It was like shouting at a deaf uncle, sometimes it responded, most often incorrectly!
I was only analysing the amplitude, not frequency, and getting the lowest variance from half a dozen pre recorded templates. I remember my Dad being mightily unimpressed at its performance! Bit like asking my Audi to do something now!
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Post by pandawdy on May 26, 2021 20:38:53 GMT -5
I haven't checked in here in a while. My first basic was Qbasic.
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rickh
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Post by rickh on Nov 17, 2022 15:44:49 GMT -5
Been a while since I have been here... My first Basic was a DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.) PDP-8 about 1970 or 1971 I think.
I was working in a team developing a serial printer and was using machine language (toggling in on the console switches) program that would send test files to the printer. Then I discovered a Basic Compiler for the system and never looked back. Not long after that we changed to or added a PDP-11 with a Basic compiler, and tapes to load from.
\s\Rick
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Post by dan1101 on Nov 19, 2022 7:56:42 GMT -5
In 1975 at the University of Michigan we had a version of BASIC running on the Amdahl 470/V6. In 1976 we got a version of the new Structured BASIC, again rewritten for U of M's timeshared mainframe. The first program I wrote in BASIC was to calculate Pi. We left it running overnight on a Friday evening, sending the results to the line printer. When we came in on Saturday morning it was still running. It had calculated Pi to about 1150 digits. Of course, we were timesharing with many other departments and, being a student project, our little program was given the lowest priority. Still, think about it, nine hours to get less than 1200 digits. How times have changed. Up until a couple years ago, I still had the punched cards from that program.
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