Re: BBC and DEFINT etc [Was: Using GOTO]

"Tom Lake" <tlake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sep 10, 12:59 pm, "Tom Lake" <tl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> In 1981, TRS-80 Level II BASIC, IBM BASIC (all three forms, Cassette,
>>> Standard and Advanced) and GW-BASIC all had the DEF statements.
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>> Was GW-BASIC really around in 1981?  I thought it first appeared on a
>> Compaq PC, which must have been no earlier than 1982.
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> The Chameleon "luggable" PC came out in November 1981.  Most folks
> think Compaq was the first PC compatible.
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> Tom Lake
For the benefit of clarity,
here is a Wiki extract:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****table_computer

The first ****table computer was manufactured by a small company in Santa
Monica, Ca. named GM Research. The machine which was designed and patented
(US Patent No. 4,294,496) by James Murez was first delivered to The
Computer
Store, Santa Monica, Ca in mid 1977. It was called the Micro Star and
later
changed the name to The Small One. Although Xerox claims to have designed
the first such system, the machine by Murez predated anything on the
market
or that had been do***ented in any publication at the time - hence the
patent was issued.

The first mass-produced ****table computer was the Osborne 1, developed by
Adam Osborne, which owed much to the NoteTaker's design.[1981 jj]

The first IBM PC compatible ****table computer (and indeed the first 100%
IBM
PC compatible, or "clone," of any kind) was the Compaq ****table.

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html
Extract:
Compaq Computer Cor****ation was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion,
Jim 
Harris and Bill Murto, three senior managers who left Texas Instruments
and 
invested $1,000 each to form their own company. Sketched on a paper place 
mat in a Houston pie shop, the first product was a ****table personal 
computer able to run all of the software being developed then for the IBM 
PC.

Endquote

jj