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I was obsessed with this book when I was 8 or 9 (so around 1990/1991). I didn't have much success with actually writing GW-BASIC code but I loved reading the ma
by skissane 2y ago
I was obsessed with this book when I was 8 or 9 (so around 1990/1991). I didn't have much success with actually writing GW-BASIC code but I loved reading the manual. I even insisted on reading it aloud to my grandmother, I'm not sure what she made of my doing that.
Not this edition though. An older edition which had a plain cover.
Closer to http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/gw-basic/410130001-320-R01-0686_Microsoft_GW-BASIC_Interpreter_Users_Guide_1986.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/gw-basic/410130001-32... and http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/gw-basic/410130013-320-R01-0686_Microsoft_GW-BASIC_Interpreter_Users_Reference_1986.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/gw-basic/410130013-32... bound in the same volume, but I don't think exactly those editions either.
I think the version I had (I seem to have lost it over the decades) was closest to https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gw-man/ https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gw-man/ but I can't find a PDF version of that
- gxd 2y agoI was obsessed with manuals back in the day too. Computer manuals were a gateway to a new world of possibilities and techno-fantasy. In my young mind, it was the 80s/90s version of the portal to Narnia.
- fuzzfactor 2y agoYou couldn't do anything without some kind of manual, there was no internet for reference. But if you did have complete documentation that's all you really needed and you could do anything the electronics was capable of.