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RM>> One of the programs I wrote, a lady friend's father at the time was
  >> starting into writing Basic programs and when he heard what the one
  >> I wrote would do he wanted to print out the whole thing on paper so
  >> he could study it I suppose..  That was more than 60 pages of code.
  >> That was a lot on those old printers that often used ribbons.

EV>Rob, I read through many BASIC programs I downloaded and learned some
  >tricks from some of them to help me when writing code.
  >BASIC and Batch code is as far as I could understand.

Ilearned Basic for Apple (Applesoft) for the first computers I built
and then had to learn GWBasic when I got an IBM type computer a
couple of years later. Also, as you said, Batch code was pretty much
required, and I also learned how to write code to create interactive
screens for a few friends BBS systems before you could just create
WYSIWYG pages through proglams like The Draw, and later MS Word..

But I never got into machine languages. I did get and learn an
extended Basic with a lot more commands and utilities built in
using APBasic, which had the advantage of being compilable into
EXE files so you could give programs to people without having
to teach them how to run them through Basic..

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