25 May
2011
25 May
'11
3:58 p.m.
At 10:29 AM 5/25/2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 5/25/11 9:34 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I cut my programming teeth on MU-BASIC. In 1979 or so, my high school was
fortunate enough to get a 11/03 from the local DEC rep. I think it supported
a VT-52, a VT-55, and an LA-120.
The weird single-line graphics mode of the VT-55 was intriguing to me.
It seemed so much more high-res than the blocky graphics of the IMSAI 8080
that the Computer Club constructed. I remember trying to create an
arbitrary line-drawing subroutine that borrowed dots from other lines,
but I think it ran out of RAM.
By '81 at UW-Madison, I picked up a part-time programming job in MU-BASIC.
- John
You are either unaware of Multi-User Basic under
RT-11
or you may have not remembered.
About MU-Basic, another listmember just sent me a copy. I've not seen it in about
twenty years, and never on one of my own systems. I know what I'll be doing this
afternoon! :-)