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Re:MicroPython by m463 on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:39AM (#24184039)
PEEK

POKE

(who named these interesting commands?)

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Re:MicroPython by phoe-krk on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:25AM (#24184824)
Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEEK_and_POKE:

> One of the earliest references to these commands in BASIC, if not the earliest, is in Altair BASIC[4].

[4] https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_mitsMITSAl_6669937/MITS...

So, it seems to date back to 1975.

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