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Old 07-26-2011, 03:46 PM   #16
tjdean256
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Originally Posted by syclone View Post
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My first 'close' encounter with a computer was with a Horizon North Star, a Z80 based computer running CP/M. I did quite a bit of programming in Basic on that unit.
Me too! except I started with the Northstar OS and wrote programs with its native basic language. Variable names were limited to one letter and one number. Switching to CP/M and JRT (?) Pascal was a Godsend!


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