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1 Year of Service
The time just after the extinction of the dinosaurs - there were no CD/DVD/BR disks or even floppy disks in computer magazines, but programs were printed and had to be typed by hand on the keyboard.Back in my day, we didn't have any of these fancy-schmancy computers or cell phones! We'd go outside and hit each other with sticks and rocks until one of us (usually temporarily) fell unconscious!
Below is a program from my home archive.
10 REM 100 symbols
20 FOR i=0 TO 9: LET s=0
30 FOR j=1 TO 10
40 READ a: LET s=s+a
50 POKE 23758+10*i+j,a
60 NEXT j: READ a
70 IF a=s THEN PRINT "Line nr ";200+10*i;" O.K.": GO TO 90
80 PRINT "Line nr ";200+10*i;" needs improvement.": STOP
90 NEXT i
100 RANDOMIZE USR 23760
110 SAVE "on tape"CODE 65368,134
120 PRINT "Rewind the tape to verify"
130 VERIFY ""CODE 65368,134
200 DATA 33,194,4,17,146,255,1,76,0,237,963
210 DATA 176,33,168,255,34,182,255,33,213,255,1604
220 DATA 34,204,255,33,218,255,54,167,33,247,1500
230 DATA 92,17,88,255,1,57,0,237,176,201,1124
240 DATA 237,75,83,92,42,89,92,175,237,66,1188
250 DATA 34,137,255,42,75,92,237,66,34,140,1112
260 DATA 255,221,33,135,255,17,17,0,205,194,1332
270 DATA 4,42,83,92,34,137,255,33,255,255,1190
280 DATA 43,124,181,32,251,62,240,221,33,0,1187
290 DATA 0,17,0,0,24,2,0,0,0,0,43