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Originally Posted by billie114
I was surfing the net when I came across a site on old computers and it really brought back memories.
I remember buying my first 'computer' and getting so very excited about it as I was the only one in the office to actually own my own pc. I don't know if anyone out there still remembers the good old 48k ZX Spectrum. The only competition in those days was whether you were a speccy owner or a commodore 64 owner and let me tell you there was extreme rivalry to the point where you wouldn't talk to someone that owned the rival pc.
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I used to have a Sinclair ZX80 and then a ZX81... then, I gave up when Clive Sinclair bought out the ZX Spectrum(which was 8 bit colour whereas the ZX80 and ZX81 were b&w, as far as I remember; I was only about 11 at the time) and got a commodore VIC20(at least my parents bought me one
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And yes, I remember typing in BASIC from "computing" magazines into the touch pad of the ZX80/81... after having got to line 1680 GOSUB 354, the jack used to fall out and you had to start from the very begining again
BUT... those were the days
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Originally Posted by billie114
To this day whenever someone says 'next', I always respond with 'X'...this was one of the most common commands in writing 'Basic ' programs.
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The Next command still exists in Visual BASIC...
As in:
private function strip_out_dots(dottedword)
For i = 1 to len(dottedword)
if mid(dottedword,i,1) <> "." then
strip_out_dots = strip_out_dots & mid(dottedword,i,1)
end if
next i
end function
