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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 01:57:33 +0100
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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:
[snip]
>> 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...
[snip]
>> 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.
[snip]
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