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The Birth of BASIC This video chronicles the development of BASIC, a programming language designed to be accessible to the masses. The historic significance of this event lies in its democratization of computing, making it possible for anyone, not just mathematicians and scientists to interact with...

Valentine’s Day – 14th February 2024 Valentine’s day this year falls on a Wednesday. This program creates a complete Valentine Card ready to send immediately via email or social media. Just run the program in Net BASIC, then look underneath the Run button and will see two URL links. One HTTPS (Hype...

Hello, Gemino. Yes, I was able to obtain the Prestige model at a good price on eBay. The voice command unfortunately is not able to convert floating point numbers or negatives to speech. It can only translate the numbers 0-10 and alphabetical characters A-Z to speech. One number or character at a t...

The following two videos explain the basics of a one qubit quantum computer. You will learn how to make a home-made quantum computer using a weak laser pointer, polarizing film and a wave plate. Qubits are the basic units of information in quantum computers. A qubit is like a special coin that can ...

VTech PreComputer Prestige The VTech PreComputer Prestige educational computer was manufactured in the 1990’s and came with a built in BASIC interpreter. This portable model is a great way to learn BASIC at a reasonably price. They can be obtained second-hand from eBay, thrift stores and yard sales...

After reading your forum topic on the VTech Precomputer 1000 I discovered that between 1988 and 1996 VTech released more than a dozen educational computers with a BASIC interpreter included. The core BASIC did not change between the first and last machine. The later models had a few extra BASIC com...

This program simulates a British road traffic light. For those not familiar with the workings of the British traffic light system the following website will highlight the lighting sequence required to simulate a traffic light. https://theorytest.org.uk/traffic-lights/ 1 REM Traffic Light 2 HTML 4 L...

The following video is an informative overview of the history of the BASIC programming language, which was the most popular programming language of the 1980’s. Some of the positive aspects of the BASIC programming language that the video mentions are:- Ease of Learning: BASIC was designed to be sim...