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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 bas
by 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 agoIt’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 agoFair. Not everyone spent 12 hours per day on their computer like me! They probably had friends and stuff. :)