Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015)

Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by khazhoux on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:21AM (#33187880)

I have to point out an anachronism in the animated gif:

    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
    20 GOTO 10

I don't think anyone would have typed "HELLO WORLD" on TRS-80 BASIC. That came from C lineage and wasn't popularized till later. I think you'd write "Hi" or "Hi John" or something... funny.

My first computer was a TRS-80 Model III at age 9, at my dad's work during summer vacation.

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by fm2606 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:53AM (#33189109)

I was in 8th grade and the library had a room with 4 or 5 TRS 80 Model 3. Students were not allowed in the room unless accompanied by a teacher.

One day in math class we watched a TV show about computers that ran that small program only the statement went across the entire screen. The teacher wheeled in one of the TRS-80s and typed in the program above and said he didn't know how to make it go across the screen like the TV show. I told him to put a semicolon at the end of line 10, which he did and it ran just like the show. After that I think I was the only student who was allowed in the computer room without supervision.

My only claim to fame with TRS 80s ;-)

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by stolenmerch on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:32AM (#33190097)

Correct. It was always something like PRINT "HELLO. I AM YOUR NEW TRS-80 MICROCOMPUTER [0] or PRINT "HI, I'M YOUR NEW COLOR COMPUTER" [1]

[0] https://archive.org/details/TRS80ModelIPreliminaryUsersManua...

[1] https://ia801905.us.archive.org/30/items/Getting_Started_wit...

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by puppyprogram on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:14AM (#33190531)

The first thing I printed in a loop was "poop"

I thought it was comic gold

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by stevekemp on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:19AM (#33189257)

Yes, my GOTO demonstration was always:

   10 PRINT "STEVE ROCKS!!!!!"
   20 GOTO 10

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday October 13, 2022 @04:12AM (#33188508)

It was definitely in the introductory BASIC teaching materials for TRS-80 and other micros.

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by jasode on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:54AM (#33189750)

>It was definitely in the introductory BASIC teaching materials for TRS-80 and other micros.

For 8-bit home computers of 1980s, I don't remember any of the official BASIC manuals that came with computer using "HELLO WORLD" in the examples. That includes Radio Shack TRS-80, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99, Atari 400/800, etc. Some cursory search of archived books seems to confirm my memory:

https://archive.org/details/Model_100_Basic_Language_Lab_198...

https://archive.org/details/commodore-64-user-guide/page/n47...

https://archive.org/details/tibook_beginners-basic/page/n9/m...

Maybe some unofficial 3rd-party BASIC guides or classes used the string "HELLO WORLD". I personally didn't see that until reading K&R C Language book. Although "Hello world" was 1974, it really didn't seem to spread into wide programming culture until 1990s.

I kind of vaguely remember some BASIC examples somewhere using 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10... but that wasn't the full "HELLO WORLD".

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Re:Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 (2015) by marcodiego on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:41AM (#33190198)

AFAIK the oldest reference to "Hello World!\n" (I think it was capitalized like that) was from "The C programming language" which was released in 1978. When it popularized for home computers is harder to determine.

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