On 2013-09-06 20:47, Tim Delaney wrote: > On 6 September 2013 20:35, Tim Chase wrote: > > I'm just glad it's no longer 40-chars-per-column and purely > > upper-case like the Apple ][+ on which I cut my programming teeth. > > Couldn't you switch the ][+ into high-res mode? You could with the > IIe. Made programming in DOS 3.3 BASIC so much nicer.
There was an 80-column add-on card that also supported lower-case (though, IIRC, you also had to do a hardware hack to wire the <shift> key to the joystick button to get it to be recognized in certain cases). The IIe was a far better machine, having the 80-column card built in. PR#3 :-) I'm also glad Python doesn't require prefixing lines with line-numbers for GOTO/GOSUB purposes, then requiring external the line-renumbering utilities that AppleSoft BASIC required :-S -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
