Re: Type in BASIC programs

[jon@i-manila.com (Jon Co)]

Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net> wrote in message news:<g5au1v0qfbh0cc2kec5lvulmkophb6b5js@4ax.com>...
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:49:08 GMT, "Robert Walker"
> <Robert.walker67@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> >I was wondering, with my file://e sitting next to me, if there are any sites
> >that still offer old style type in BASIC programs?
> 
> Not that I know of.  This is probably due to the fact that if they are
> going to make a file available for people to download it is easier to
> just make the already entered program available so the user doesn't
> need to enter it.  Even if they do make a text file of an Applesoft
> program available, you don't need to type it in yourself, you can just
> EXEC the text file on your Apple II and it will enter the program for
> you and if the text file doesn't already include a SAVE command, you
> just need to save it when it finishes.
I was wondering the same thing myself just a few days back.  The
purpose would not be to "transfer" the program to the Apple II, but to
the the feel of buying a magazine from the newsstand and typing in
programs from it.  I have a stack of old nibble/incider/II computing
magazines which I typed programs in from recently.  The only drawback
is that I do not have all the issues and almost all of the programs
have typos in them that were corrected in the succeeding issue.  I
begin to wonder if those were deliberately placed in the programs as a
ploy to have us buy the next issue, and the next, and the next....