BASIC 80 Re: Old Microsoft stuff...

From: George Rachor <george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com>
Date: Mon Jun 15 21:06:54 1998

Sounds like my Xerox 820 Basic Manual.


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George L. Rachor george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon http://racsys.rt.rain.com

On 15 Jun 1998, Frank McConnell wrote:

> Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net> wrote:
> > I have a brown 3 ring binder that has MicroSoft printed diagonally
> > across it in large white letters. The binder is labeled "BASIC-80". Inside
> > it has an 8 inch floppy disk that's marked "Hewlett-Packard single sided
> > flexible disc". Does anyone know what ssytem it's for?
>
> Well, um, no. If you made me guess which HP system, I'd say HP125,
> which was a CP/M machine built into a 262X terminal body.
>
> But I'd be a little bit surprised that it's not dressed up as an HP
> product. HP was doing that with Microsoft products in the mid-1980s,
> e.g. the Microsoft Pascal compiler for the HP150.
>
> -Frank McConnell
>
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