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I agree with all of this except for one point: Having an ordinary key on the keyboard that would effectively kill -9 the current program and clear the screen w

• jamiek88 4y ago
  The break key unless you held down control was only a soft break though. Your program would still be in memory with an \>OLD command. As long as it was a basic prog, the machine code loaded *RUN was lost and had to be reloaded from tape, yes. A pain for games but I don’t really recall accidentally pressing the break key much it was out of the way up right. I could talk about this all day!
  • snoot 4y ago
    It’s true that you could get a basic program back with old. But any data was lost and I saw break get pressed accidentally fairly often at school and amongst friends.
    • jamiek88 4y ago
      Fair. Not everyone spent 12 hours per day on their computer like me! They probably had friends and stuff. :)