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Old 10-14-2007, 07:05 AM
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Default Altair 680 Basic locations?

I see that the KC cassette version of the 680 basic code is "out there". Has anyone posted a version of the S1/S9 code as a text file?? Does Microsoft know about this? Do they care?? I don't see anywhere where links are shown.

I'd be very interested in this. I've (somewhere) got one of the cassettes (long ago, it is buried now, I suspect) and want to adapt it to a different ACIA based monitor. As I remember it, the "instruction manual" was a small sheet of paper (less than letter size) printed on both sides.

I never built a KC tape box. I had an ASR33 teletype and then a floppy disk (all 100k of it!).

The other basic (Uiterwyk's) that is BCD based (more accurate, slower) I long ago typed in the source. Interesting how you find out about how basic works inside. The Microsoft (Altair 680) one used tokens, the Uiterwyk one always re-scanned the text (slower).
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