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10. I saw the code you put up there as a kind of a prank that many old timers could relate to. And then yeah,

Sat Nov 16, 2024, 10:36 PM

Nov 16

maybe you'd have to account for a spool of perforated paper. Pretty harmless.

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Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96 [View all] Jacson6 Nov 16 OP

..... gay texan Nov 16 #1

:-) n/t Jacson6 Nov 16 #2

Fun, but then you might have to apologize to someone somewhere... dgauss Nov 16 #7

Have i ever.... n/t gay texan Nov 16 #9

I remember doing that with my own name, on Commodore 64's canuckledragger Nov 16 #8

I remember learning BASIC in high school. dgauss Nov 16 #3

On the C64 I used a lot of gosub commands. Jacson6 Nov 16 #4

My first computer language! Intractable Nov 16 #5

Actually, infinite loops are OK Otto_Harper Nov 16 #12

Sitting around duncang Nov 17 #13