-> But the idea was make sure that any extensions did not get
-> in the way of still being able to enter an old fashioned
-> 1st generation Minimal Basic program from a circa 3 decade
-> old magazine article into a plain text console and run it.
Those were the days! When magazines published listings of BASIC
programs, and readers wer encouraged to type them in and run them. I
typed more than a few myself. I also published some programs of my own
that way.
Mind you, problems sometimes occurred. One time, a magazine came out
with a program of mine with about 50 lines missing. I went to complain
to the editor, and found the missing lines lying on the floor of the
room where the text was assembled by literal cut-and-paste.
Oh well...
dow
