Re: Interpreter for old basic programs from the line number era

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:01:43 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
<not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

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>It's not an availability issue, it's a money issue. Yes, my finances 
>are really so tight that I can't afford $10 for dialup.
Sorry to hear that.  I am not quite that bad off -- yet.

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>I *think* the modem I had in high school was 19k. (Whatever it was -- 
>19.2?) Of course, back then, I wasn't on the internet exactly -- just 
>local BBS's, *one* of which had internet email access. (Used them to 
>write to a friend in the military, stationed in VA. Bang paths are 
>fun.)
were fun.  :-)  And, I think bang paths were pre-modern internet.  I
forgot the name of that mail system.

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>Yes, Linux. My attempts at *BSD usually turn into fiascos. (I once 
>"accidentally" erased my entire hda because I didn't *quite* 
>understand what the installer was asking me. Oops.) I do have a few 
>different BSDs on CD at home, but I'm not going to install them any 
>time soon. (OTOH, I *do* use both QNX and BeOS -- but those are 
>entirely different.)
I had a mild interest in BeOS at one time, but never really did much
of anything about it.
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