20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
2:02 a.m.
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, John Allain wrote:
IBM's first PC, maybe 1977, about $20,000 then.
Had BASIC
1975.
and APL if you were lucky. Only the APL had graphics,
a huge
incentive to learn APL.
No, there wasn't graphics in APL, but there were the so called Print/Plot
routines for both BASIC and APL that allowed to plot graphs and text on
the 5103 printer. I have the software and manuals somewhere.
Christian