coding Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/coding/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:39:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png coding Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/coding/ 32 32 146320098 Department Store BASIC: Learning to code via programmatic vandalism in the 1980s http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/19/department-store-basic-learning-to-code-via-programmatic-vandalism-in-the-1980s/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/19/department-store-basic-learning-to-code-via-programmatic-vandalism-in-the-1980s/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:20:59 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=776 Before MS-DOS, Microsoft’s biggest product was arguably BASIC. Variants of Microsoft BASIC shipped in most 1980s home computers, including the Commodore 64, Tandy Color Computer and the Apple II (as Applesoft BASIC). Standing for “Beginners [more...]

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