I tried PC-Basic on my 3 Win-10 computers, wrote a simple program, SAVE"TESTPGM",A.
Used the search window to locate it (successfully), for the path.... Could not get
to the directory! The computers put the file in 3 different inaccessable locations. I am finding
the 3 machines spend more time loading, updating, checking for " WHATEVER" than doing useful work!
PC-Basic could get to TESTPGM and was able to LOAD" & run the simple code. Pulled
an old PC out of the garage, used the original Op-sys restore CD/DVD to reload XP.
Ran PC-Basic again and found the location where it was supposed to be. LOAD" one of
my 1980's GW-Basic via a 4" floppy disk that was the equivalent of an upgraded
version that was published in Feb. 1981 in EDN Magazine, flawless operation!
I do NOT know Linux! Have several RaspberryPi-3B units. RasPi comes with Python 2.7
Ver 13 pre installed..... PC-Basic should be able to run.... saw someones post of
successful installation 1n 2016 on a RasPi-2,went looking for an "apt-get' and came
up dry..... followed a link to the Python stuff, and I do not have a clue as to what
to do with a pip! Being in my late 70's, I need a shortcut to put this electrical engineering
stuff into a usefull place.....
I believe that this would put a significant set of tools into the hands of college
engineering students. It was used (in FORTRAN on IBM 1103 originally) to design & optimize
RF filters, and later at another company, the electronics for the first Mars (Planet) landers (Viking)
and several earth orbiting satelites.
Most of the original development documentation was purged to eliminate the processing time for the REM statements. (and to make it more difficult for someone to walk away with my work) In the Feb. 4, 1981 issue of EDN I published a simplified version of the software that would run on the HP-9825, a common industry available desktop computer used to automate HP test equipment for automated Microwave
testing.
Now I'd like to make the stuff open-source.........
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I tried PC-Basic on my 3 Win-10 computers, wrote a simple program, SAVE"TESTPGM",A.
Used the search window to locate it (successfully), for the path.... Could not get
to the directory! The computers put the file in 3 different inaccessable locations. I am finding
the 3 machines spend more time loading, updating, checking for " WHATEVER" than doing useful work!
PC-Basic could get to TESTPGM and was able to LOAD" & run the simple code. Pulled
an old PC out of the garage, used the original Op-sys restore CD/DVD to reload XP.
Ran PC-Basic again and found the location where it was supposed to be. LOAD" one of
my 1980's GW-Basic via a 4" floppy disk that was the equivalent of an upgraded
version that was published in Feb. 1981 in EDN Magazine, flawless operation!
I do NOT know Linux! Have several RaspberryPi-3B units. RasPi comes with Python 2.7
Ver 13 pre installed..... PC-Basic should be able to run.... saw someones post of
successful installation 1n 2016 on a RasPi-2,went looking for an "apt-get' and came
up dry..... followed a link to the Python stuff, and I do not have a clue as to what
to do with a pip! Being in my late 70's, I need a shortcut to put this electrical engineering
stuff into a usefull place.....
I believe that this would put a significant set of tools into the hands of college
engineering students. It was used (in FORTRAN on IBM 1103 originally) to design & optimize
RF filters, and later at another company, the electronics for the first Mars (Planet) landers (Viking)
and several earth orbiting satelites.
Most of the original development documentation was purged to eliminate the processing time for the REM statements. (and to make it more difficult for someone to walk away with my work) In the Feb. 4, 1981 issue of EDN I published a simplified version of the software that would run on the HP-9825, a common industry available desktop computer used to automate HP test equipment for automated Microwave
testing.
Now I'd like to make the stuff open-source.........