TZUTC: -0500   
   MSGID: 1109.canada@1:2320/105 2dd2d1bd   
   REPLY: 1107.canada@1:2320/105 2dd0cbf2   
   PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/123f2d28a Jul 12 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.28-Linux master/123f2d28a Jul 12 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   BBSID: CAPCITY2   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   FORMAT: flowed   
      
   >   >> starting into writing Basic programs and when he heard what the one   
   >   >> I wrote would do he wanted to print out the whole thing on paper so   
   >   >> he could study it I suppose..  That was more than 60 pages of code.   
   >   >> That was a lot on those old printers that often used ribbons.   
      
   >   >tricks from some of them to help me when writing code.   
   >   >BASIC and Batch code is as far as I could understand.   
      
   > Ilearned Basic for Apple (Applesoft) for the first computers I built   
   > and then had to learn GWBasic when I got an IBM type computer a   
   > couple of years later. Also, as you said, Batch code was pretty much   
   > required, and I also learned how to write code to create interactive   
   > screens for a few friends BBS systems before you could just create   
   > WYSIWYG pages through proglams like The Draw, and later MS Word..   
      
   > But I never got into machine languages. I did get and learn an   
   > extended Basic with a lot more commands and utilities built in   
   > using APBasic, which had the advantage of being compilable into   
   > EXE files so you could give programs to people without having   
   > to teach them how to run them through Basic..   
      
   > ---   
   >  * SLMR Rob  * I still have a full deck... I just shuffle slower   
      
      
   Rob, I had several friends who used Apple II pcs but though the price tag was   
   high, so I got the Commodore 64 and Floppy drive tostart out with.   
   Ten years later got a 486 with DOS 5.0 .   
   Now have a XP Desktop and  Vista notebook.   
   No internet for the older gear just on this cellphone.   
      
   You may have seen me write this before : I had the bookfor the C= Floppy drive.   
   I tried forever to Format a 5.25" disk using the directions for the NEW   
   command.   
   It wasn't until I ran a program that was onthe disk that came with the Floppy   
   drive that would Check The Drive .   
   I loaded and ran that program and it asked to insert a blank disk.   
   When the program finished and said all was o.k. with the drive, I learned that   
   the program formatted the disk and I could now save programs to it    
      
   Looking at the program listing ng thatI just ran i saw I needed to use the Open   
   command before New to format a disk.   
      
   The Open command was the fitsr command in the Floppy drives book.   
   I had not thought it was needed until I now had a Formatted disk.   
   I have been like that all my life.   
   Even the day I was born someone had to whip Me to get my attention.   
   Ex   
   --- SBBSecho 3.28-Linux   
    * Origin: Capitol City Online (1:2320/105)   
   SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 128/187 129/14 305 153/7715 154/110 218/700   
   SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 134 206 300 307 317 426 428 470   
   SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 705 291/111 292/854 320/219 322/757 396/45 460/58   
   SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 902/26 2320/0 105 107 304 5020/400 5075/35   
   PATH: 2320/105 229/426