 | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by vf1000ride |  | | | | | | | | | Learned Basic (can't remember any of it) on an Apple IIC with tape drive | |  | |  | |
We (meaning my Dad, as he so eloquently put it, He with the Gold makes the Rules) upgraded to a //c a couple years down the road, but I seem to remember it had a built-in 5" floppy drive... Regardless, that was the last Apple-branded computer I would ever "own"...
In college, I had a choice of using a Mac or a
PC to do my essays and whatnot on, and the PCs were usually easier to get on at the computer banks in the library... Destiny, fate, blind luck, even...
As for BASIC...
10 PRINT "Hello!"
20 PRINT " "
30 GOTO 10
(If I remember, it makes "Hello!" flash up in the top left corner of the screen, until you use the BREAK command...)
I got a bit more in-depth with programming in BASIC during my Computer Technology class in high school (eons ago, it feels like), but that was like one of the first little "programs" I had to come up with as an in-class assignment, and it stuck with me...
(wish we had a smilie for feeling older than DIRT...)