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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?



I demand that Bob Retelle may or may not have written...

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:09:21 +0200, "T.J.T van Kooten"
> <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> wrote:
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>> Build in programming language? (please choose anything but Basic!)

> Why not?  BASIC is userfriendly.  It uses natural language.  It was
> designed to be easily usable.by anyone.

BBC BASIC's *very* nice...

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>> Video (TV? or Monitor?)

> Using a TV will restrict the output to 40 columns. [...]

BBC micro, mode 0. 640x256 graphics, 80x32 text, monochrome. Very useable on
a PAL TV.

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