<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Riley, Liz (ACHE) wrote: <blockquote cite="midC0A50F6BB18ADB44AA8F28DDFBADB111011448A6@COSSMGMBX03.EMAIL.CORP.TLD" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> > yup, three days of typing hex into a ZX81..... sneeze on the ram pack and it all vanished. > At least Windows has kept the feeling of nostalgia ;-) I progressed to an amstrad 6128, thousands and thousands of data strings.... yeah then I descovered a bug in the basic type thing, and a line would claim to be invalid, you'd hit copy, and in effect reenter the line, and it would shut up.. </pre> </blockquote> TRS80 - A$ and B$ - that's your lot for strings. Hard to write adventure games. I think MS Word is written in TRS80 basic. <div class="moz-signature">-- Kevin Thorpe Head of IT Purchasing Index Ltd Southbank House Black Prince Road London SE1 7SJ tel: 020 7463 2022 fax: 020 7463 2025 Mailto: <a href="mailto:kevin@pricetrak.com">kevin@pricetrak.com</a> URL: <a href="http://www.pricetrak.com">http://www.pricetrak.com</a> <hr> All views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the author. Accordingly, Purchasing Index Ltd does not accept responsibility for the contents of the message unless specifically stated otherwise. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the message immediately. </div> </body> </html>