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BASIC and the ROMs that changed the world (and then disappeared)

Once upon a time, Now was the future. For me, Now started on my eleventh birthday in 1983. That day I got an 8-bit 64 Kb Japanese computer called the Sharp MZ-700, an obscure home computer even when it was new. This meant that there were very few games, or other software, available for it. If you wanted to do something, you had to do it yourself.This is where the programming language BASIC came in. Sharp included a variant, S-BASIC, on cassette. I knew that if I managed to learn it, I could prog...

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