10 PRINT "NOSTALGIA", 20 GOTO 10 – Wired reminisces about BASIC

BASIC was the only language in use by the patrons of the Byte Shop that I worked at in 1978. There was a wide variety from different vendors. Apple BASIC was the strangest with its PEEK 53814 style graphics operations. But it was also the most popular machine by orders of magnitude. (We were selling machines with serial numbers in the 4000 range.)

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