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echo: rberrypi
to: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
from: ADRIAN CASPERSZ
date: 2021-03-26 14:34:00
subject: Re: Interpreted BASIC?

On 26/03/2021 13:43, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:27:13 +0000
> Adrian Caspersz  wrote:
>
>> The Raspberry Pi 400, to me is just screaming to be booted up with a BBC
>> BASIC prompt without a GUI. Just switch it on, and start coding like
>> it's 1984... er, 1981.
>
>  If you had a BBC Micro in 1981 I'm impressed, there were a handful
> of model As shipped in December but even at Torch we didn't get model B
> boards until well into 1982.

Ah true. My one came to me in 1983. I threw a small fortune at it.

I could now connect a Raspberry Pi to it as a tube co-processor, but
apart from playing retro games, I don't think I'd do much else with it
nowadays.

Should do it up and sell it (and get my money back....)

--
Adrian C

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