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Boring story time! I grew up on the MSX. My dad bought two of them in around 1985 or so. At school we were taught Logo on BBC Micros, but we didnt have a BBC m
by pbiggar 13y ago
Boring story time!
I grew up on the MSX. My dad bought two of them in around 1985 or so. At school we were taught Logo on BBC Micros, but we didnt have a BBC micro at home, so my dad sourced MSX Logo [1].
Unfortunately, it was localized in dutch, so instead of the "forward" command, there was the "vooruit" command. So to make it the same as we learned in school, my dad made a set of English functions which wrapped all the Dutch functions. He is an economist/diplomat, not a programmer, and it was quite a few years until I realized what he had done and how impressive that was.
[1] http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/philips/msx-logo/release/2568/ http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/philips/msx-logo/relea...
- herokusaki 13y agoHow did he make the wrapper functions persist between sessions?
- keithpeter 13y agoSome LOGOs allow you to save and load a default workspace, complete with words you have taught LOGO. Google has failed me with MSX Logo however.
- pbiggar 13y agoThey were saved to disk. I'm not sure if he overwrote the disk logo came on, or we used a different disk. It was 25 years ago :)
- DanBC 13y agoThis isn't a boring story! I wish there was a site where this kind of information could be collected. Personal history of computing is important and a lot of it is being lost.
- rocky1138 13y agoThere is one for Apple. http://www.folklore.org/index.py http://www.folklore.org/index.py
- tim_m_locke 13y agoApple 1 and Apple ][ history http://apple2history.org/history/ah01/ http://apple2history.org/history/ah01/
- bane 13y agoActually, old-computers.com lets people post personal stories about the machines they have in their museum. example: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=90 http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=90 I wish it was used more/better known though.