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Damn, I thought someone had built an 8-bit BASIC interpreter into a mouse mat, with an e-ink screen or something.
I am disappoint.
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10 PRINT <your favorite insult here>
20 GO TO 10
Sorry, I had to give in to my inner teenager.
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Oh that glorious particular shade of blue.
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We’ve all heard the apocryphal story behind why these prompts all say “READY”, right? Where an IBM programmer had the computer print “IDLE” when it entered an idle state and a IBM manager saw this and said “IBM computers are never ‘idle’, they are ‘ready’!”?
Yeah, I’m sure we have.
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