07-17-15 09:22 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Changing Acct in XP   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <55B8AD84.14352.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message dated 07-15-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> GM Ed,   
   GM Holger,   
      
    EV> I was thinking it was a ZX80, so I looked at Widipedia and yes they   
    EV> have a page for the ZX80 and ZX81 PC's.   
      
    HG> Hmm, PC is a short for Personal Computer, usually an IBM   
    HG> compatible!   
      
   "My way of thinking" doesn't restrict the abbrev. PC only to the   
   XP computer IBM made and the copies other Companies made using that   
   8088 CPU.   
      
   RCA's COSMAC ELF, KIM, IMSAI, PET and I can't right now think of any   
   more of the other early (Hobby) computers I remember reading about in   
   Popular Electronics and Radio-Electronics magazines long ago.   
      
   All those ARE Personal Computers TOO! imnsho.    
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    EV> After I joined a FIDO BBS I liked seeing what others would create   
    EV> and show in the QWK_BAS echo.   
      
    HG> I looked through my first list of available echoes but there   
    HG> were none for Basic.   
      
   Thanks for looking.   
   The echo been gone for a long time.   
   -snip-   
    EV> I remember Kurt Kuzba(sp?) wrote one saying "Basic Can't Do This",   
    EV> but IT Did!   
      
    HG> Once you learned machine code and/or assembly coding everything   
    HG> was so much easier.   
      
   I've bought books to try to learn about Assembly Language and gave up   
   my attempt at that.   
      
   I have looked at some programs using DEBUG to try figuring out how the   
   Programmer did his Loop-a-de-Loop coding and all I got was my head   
   spinning. .... ..   
      
   If I can find a copy of the QBasic program I wrote about above, I'll   
   send a copy to Your Email Address so You can look at what Kurt did.   
      
   I found the program, it is 79 lines long and I'll send it to You after   
   I send this .REP packet to the BBS.   
      
   The program is called RGB13FLO.BAS .   
      
   I would 'think' OS/2 has a BASIC Program, it probably does.   
   The OS/2 book I have didn't mention BASIC specifically but did say that   
   OS/2 would run MS-DOS programs.   
      
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