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There's a nice video here of a complete BASIC boot sequence - entering boot code, loading BASIC, then loading a BASIC program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
by HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
There's a nice video here of a complete BASIC boot sequence - entering boot code, loading BASIC, then loading a BASIC program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5b1Xowxdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5b1Xowxdk
As far as any program was concerned the TTY was just a serial port, and it couldn't tell the whether data coming in was from keyboard or paper tape reader.
- systems_glitch 2y agoYup, that's why they were such useful devices! Even if you were ending up with inefficient storage (punching ASCII vs. binary, or expanded BASIC source vs. tokens), it was built-in.