10 TEXT: HOME20 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
30 END
Waxing nostalgic for days when life was supposedly simpler afer an all day migration from Vista to Windows 7, I took note of all the expensive geeky "must have" hardware items that have been purchased and subsequenty trashed. I sold my old Apple ][ setup for $2000 for a leg up on a IBM 286 Machine running at 6mz. I remember my first hard drive, all 20 mb of it. That's mb, folks, about the size of 7 or 8 MP3s. There were EGA monitors, dual-sided 5 ¼" floppy disks, zip drives, dot matrix printers with tractor paper, 2 mb memory expansion modules , 300 baud modems ...
>RUN
> HELLO WORLD
1 comment:
Our first computer at home was a Tandy of some flavor. I remember playing a lot of games with text prompts. The good ole days...
Thanks for playing 6WS!
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