Upon the date 02:35 AM 5/12/99 -0700, Mike Ford said something like: >> I'm interested in the old line numbered basics. Are there any web >>sites or email lists regarding programming in the old basic languages? >>Stephanie sring(a)uslink.net > >Yipes, I thought they were all that way. ;) Then again I learned basic on

Gee Stephanie, that question makes some of us feel *old*! :-) Us 'older folks' learned BASIC back in the old days and knew it as always having line numbers then. Mike falls within "our group" it appears. Nowadays, the apparent influences of other structured languages like the Pascal flavors, ADA, C/C++, etc. have allowed modern BASICs to be designed to not use line numbers, and hence, be somewhat more structured :) First BASIC I came across that didn't have line numbering was BASIC-09 that I used on my OS-9/68k industrial computer in the late 80's. The BASIC-09 was first written for the 6809-based Radio Shack Color Computers (early 80's vintage) which ran OS-9 Level 1 and was eventually ported over to the 68000 level of OS-9. Compared with the OS-9 Pascal I also had, it looked quite similar. That brought me renewed respect for BASIC. *Structured* BASIC, that is. Regards, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.ggw.org/awa