[Coco] CoCo Coding: Wow, has it been a while.

[jdaggett at gate.net]

The one basic that I have the most experience is HP-Basic for the HP -UX 
systems. Wrote many thousands lines of code to test pagers. A little quirky 
at times but a very powerful basic language. 

james

On 26 Jul 2007 at 7:18, Rogelio Perea wrote:

> Of all the BASICs I have ever done, the CoCo's is the one I prefer the
> most, followed with the TRS-80's Model III and I. The rest are too
> quirky or too tight technically-wise (C=64, TI99, ZX81, VIC20, Apple,
> etc).
> 
> Still have on disk many of the programs offered in the user manuals
> for the CoCo 1, starting off with those sample programs that came with
> big landscape pages books originally shipped with the CoCo 1, there
> were some nifty programs to type, the Dancing Robot is one that
> despite its simplicity, it always amazed my visitors when at the time
> (remember, this was 1982/83) would venture a question like: "A
> computer? what is it good for, what does it do?", and after the usual
> math and school benefits explanation, a dancing robot would always put
> minds at ease.
> 
> There was no better way for me to learn how to program than to type
> the sample programs from the books. When I got my MC-10 the only
> source of programs to try on were those of the CoCo 1 books, minor
> modifications to allow the MC-10 way of doing some things (have I ever
> missed the ELSE and EDIT statements!).
> 
> 
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
> 
> 
> On 7/26/07, Jim Cox <jimcox at miba51.com> wrote:
> >
> > I sat down and typed in some of the first few programs
> > from "Extended Basic" and I cannot believe how much the
> > little CoCo could do with just Basic, and how different it
> > is from modern coding (noticed I used different instead of
> > difficult :)
> >
> > It's going to take a little getting used to, but I think
> > it's going to be fun.
> >
> > Jim
> 
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