This is gold. Reminds me of trying to key in games from books in my parent's 70's basement
@paulfordhammer31653 ай бұрын
16kb de memoria RAM puede correr BASIC? yo aprendi BASIC con un Atari 65XE en 1987 in Spain >80 CLS >90 PRINT "GOOD WORK! Dwayne Goforth" >RUN
@signorelephant4 ай бұрын
Has anyone actually seen the book he is holding at the end?
@jackilynpyzocha6624 ай бұрын
I like that she is teaching him about computers/programming!
@AnonymousAccount5144 ай бұрын
Well a woman was the first programmer, it was a woman who wrote the code that led us to the moon, it was a woman who coded the project used to see a black hole IRL…
@jackilynpyzocha66217 күн бұрын
@@AnonymousAccount514 Lady Ada Lovelace!
@jackilynpyzocha6624 ай бұрын
I learned BASIC on a TI 99 4 A in 1983. I am reviewing the language on a Mac running "MCX BASIC" TRS-80
@jeffnikАй бұрын
Yeah ... gotta LOVE watching the screen flicker with each keypress! ;-) I had one, too.
@jackilynpyzocha66217 күн бұрын
@@jeffnik This is fun! I learned some BASIC! I want to set up a GPA calculating program, no weights, no credits.
@jackilynpyzocha66217 күн бұрын
Great sound of the keyboard!
@LarryRobinsonintothefog6 ай бұрын
Remember loading programs from cassette watching the asterisk blink only to have it come up "?" for error and had to adjust volume of tape and wait more minutes.
Millions of names and billions of pieces of data on a machine with 4K to maybe 16K (don't recall the max) would be heck of an accomplishment. Guy was definitely out of his mind! Imagine what he thinks of mobile phones now?
@ObiWanBillKenobi9 ай бұрын
This feels like there is an introduction missing at the start.
@davidmartin1239 ай бұрын
Ah yes, harkens back to the time when home computing was new and programming was FUN! And then came thing-oriented programming, frameworks, and middleware, and replaced the fun was lost, replaced with tedium. But there's still versions of BASIC you can use for programming Android devices to bring that fun back again and write your own apps.
@feywerfolevado62868 ай бұрын
I grew up using BASIC and later I tinkered around with BATCH~ Good memories
@capnrob977 ай бұрын
I agree. I have been a professional software developer since 1987. I have a few retro computers I use to program for fun. All the frameworks, toolsets, etc get tedious. I enjoy pushing BASIC to its limits on these old machines.
@ObiWanBillKenobi9 ай бұрын
I wish I had a TRS-80 Model 1. Then I could solve complex equations and *rule the universe*!
@knottreel9 ай бұрын
When you type on those old keyboards it makes such a relaxing sound.
@jackilynpyzocha6624 ай бұрын
It takes the edge off the exceptional excitement!
@TheAnkMan9 ай бұрын
End credits say it's copyright 1979, not 1977 as the KZread title suggests.
@DouglasLippi9 ай бұрын
Omg can't watch.
@enrico34339 ай бұрын
Bellissimo video. Quel Computer era il mio sogno di adolescente. Purtroppo non ho avuto la possibilità di possedere un personal computer fino agli anni 90. Mi piace molto il modo in cui la ragazza spiega il funzionamento dei comandi BASIC.
@aligator9552 Жыл бұрын
The beginning is much like a bad intro to a pornography flick of that era. I was waiting for the moment when the two of them glace at each other lose themselves in their eyes and rapidly start undressing and have hot ass slapping sex!
@CannedCam Жыл бұрын
I dont get why you would just type it to say hi john..what would people "program" theur computers to do?
@JimVeneskey Жыл бұрын
I haven't used Level 1 basic since I bought my first Model 1 some 40 years ago - and I soon upgraded it to Level 2. Did Level 1 really accept "GO TO 10" and mash it together into the keyword I'm familiar with "GOTO"? I was fully expecting the L1 equivalent of a syntax error - but it seemed to accept it - and LIST showed the space was gone.
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
I could change this program to figure out my GPA (Non-weighted/non-credited)! I can excel in Algebra, too!
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
Apple's physical address is "One Infintite Loop"
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
I like how she teaches him!
@DrWoofOfficial11 ай бұрын
Wdym
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
I learned BASIC on a Tandy RLX 1000
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
QBASIC
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
I love the sound of the mechanical (clicky) keyboard!
@VintageVolts Жыл бұрын
@@jackilynpyzocha662 It's not quite the same without line numbers. :)
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
Random Number Generator(RNG)
@TheAnkMan2 жыл бұрын
When printing "Hello JOHN" again and again "Now you can see how powerful this machine is". 😀
@patrick7649 ай бұрын
That’s exactly what I was going to say.
@riskidxer2 жыл бұрын
BASIC coding its very easy for me
@alexabadi74582 жыл бұрын
This was between the dinosaurs and cellphones periods.
@stevewarnek54702 жыл бұрын
This series was called ADVENTURE OF THE MIND - anyone have more ep's of this ?
@chobbler2 жыл бұрын
I had the Tandy TRS80 colour computer 2 back in 1983. I remember buying all the weekly mags with programs in that you could copy, I must of spent hours copying line after line into it.
@jezza101812 жыл бұрын
They had voice recognition in what looks like the late 70s????
@markshade839810 ай бұрын
The early TRS-80 line had the ability to sample audio input with a DAC and store that as a file. It also could do some other basic stuff with audio.
@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada3 жыл бұрын
Coool
@doctorx00793 жыл бұрын
Nikki Barthen was also in The Redeemer: Son of Satan! aka Class Reunion Massacre. And has no other acting credits.
@TheAnkMan2 жыл бұрын
The other credit is to John Hertzler in The Redeemer as well as in this BASIC learning clip. Is this the same actor from Star Trek playing a Klingon? There he was known as "J.G. Hertzler". What a coincidence having both actors in two movies shot just one year apart. This is 1979 from the copyright note at the end though, not 1977.
@fredkilner22993 жыл бұрын
How do you write Z80 code on it? A friend had a TRS-80 and I programmed it back in the late 70's. Didn't know the word for semicolon so called it "Comma Dot". APPLE ][ was my favorite and I programmed back at Computer Land of Los Altos in 6502 and Basic preferably Woz's fast Integer basic instead of Microsoft slug slow floating point basic. Assembly code was the only way. BASIC sucked. CPU is fast enough to manage simple hardware sprites updated every scan line. A few TTL chips and there could of been way more awesome graphics.
@robodabbler2 жыл бұрын
I believe PEEK and POKE in the BASIC prompt is how you could get assembler in there.
@tc4istalke5753 жыл бұрын
Basic seems like python
@alexanderfreeman2 жыл бұрын
Yes, a much clunkier version of it.
@MezzMcGillicuddy13 жыл бұрын
1979, according to the Roman numerals... Such innocent times, before the machines took over the world! LOL
@elijahvincent9853 жыл бұрын
I'd love to visit that year if time machines ever become a reality. All the Conservative values rising, Browns & greens, videotapes, and many of the early computers! I'd love it I could buy an Atari 800 computer brand new with all the accessories and necessary software and then travel it back to modern times to have a "Brand-New" old computer! If only!
@ChristopheD_3 жыл бұрын
I still own a TRS 80. This video is a back travel thru time... Thanks a lot
@tomknapp61943 жыл бұрын
So glad that "LET" was omitted in Level II BASIC>
@joemorris95012 жыл бұрын
It wasn't needed in Level 1 basic. They just put it in there to make more sense to the layman. They also wrote in full syntax whereas the Level 1 was unique in that it used "shorthand" ... like instead of "print" you could put "P." and then whatever you wanted to print, instead of "FOR L = etc etc" it would be "F.L= ... etc etc".
@tomknapp61943 жыл бұрын
Is she "womansplaning"? lol Relax people, just a joke.
@perfectpREdAtori Жыл бұрын
Bruh wut?
@stewrosster3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else realize that John is General Martok?
@dwaynegoforth32463 жыл бұрын
Well how crazy is that. I sure never realized it. He said in this video that if he could learn to program a computer that he could rule the world! How funny. Thanks
@stewrosster3 жыл бұрын
@@dwaynegoforth3246 Yes too funny. J.G. Hertzler was only approximately 28 in this video. Everyone's gotta pay their bills ;-)
@billysmidway7032 Жыл бұрын
I just saw this video for the first time and thought “John” looked like J. G. Hertzler! That’s amazing!!!
@rkemble9 ай бұрын
Yes, I could tell it was him from the laugh at the beginning.
@kpw123 жыл бұрын
“I ‘gotta know more than this easy stuff if I’m ‘gonna take over the solar system...”
@Greg_Huff Жыл бұрын
😂
@CCLGamer4 жыл бұрын
Great video. The video ends with Roman numerals for 1979. At the end it says Copyright MCMLXXIX which translates to 1979. While this may have been filmed earlier, the infomercial was most likely distributed in 1979.
@CCLGamer4 жыл бұрын
At 1:20 The computer responds with WHAT? to the syntax error in the typed command. So, this is a Model I Level I machine that was introduced 1977. The 1978 Model I Level II with the expanded BASIC early ROM would have answered SYNTAX ERROR. The later upgraded Model I LEVEL II BASIC ROM would have replied SN ERROR. The abbreviation of error messages was a creative way of making room for more code in ROM.
@CCLGamer4 жыл бұрын
Soon, I will supply several advanced light pen programs for the TRS-80, including the Tic Tac Toe shown in the infomercial at 6:50 and the light show program, as well.
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This is gold. Reminds me of trying to key in games from books in my parent's 70's basement
16kb de memoria RAM puede correr BASIC? yo aprendi BASIC con un Atari 65XE en 1987 in Spain >80 CLS >90 PRINT "GOOD WORK! Dwayne Goforth" >RUN
Has anyone actually seen the book he is holding at the end?
I like that she is teaching him about computers/programming!
Well a woman was the first programmer, it was a woman who wrote the code that led us to the moon, it was a woman who coded the project used to see a black hole IRL…
@@AnonymousAccount514 Lady Ada Lovelace!
I learned BASIC on a TI 99 4 A in 1983. I am reviewing the language on a Mac running "MCX BASIC" TRS-80
Yeah ... gotta LOVE watching the screen flicker with each keypress! ;-) I had one, too.
@@jeffnik This is fun! I learned some BASIC! I want to set up a GPA calculating program, no weights, no credits.
Great sound of the keyboard!
Remember loading programs from cassette watching the asterisk blink only to have it come up "?" for error and had to adjust volume of tape and wait more minutes.
10 A$ = "Belch" 20 B$ = "Me" 30 Print A$;B$ 40 Goto 30 Run
I miss the simplicity of those days
Millions of names and billions of pieces of data on a machine with 4K to maybe 16K (don't recall the max) would be heck of an accomplishment. Guy was definitely out of his mind! Imagine what he thinks of mobile phones now?
This feels like there is an introduction missing at the start.
Ah yes, harkens back to the time when home computing was new and programming was FUN! And then came thing-oriented programming, frameworks, and middleware, and replaced the fun was lost, replaced with tedium. But there's still versions of BASIC you can use for programming Android devices to bring that fun back again and write your own apps.
I grew up using BASIC and later I tinkered around with BATCH~ Good memories
I agree. I have been a professional software developer since 1987. I have a few retro computers I use to program for fun. All the frameworks, toolsets, etc get tedious. I enjoy pushing BASIC to its limits on these old machines.
I wish I had a TRS-80 Model 1. Then I could solve complex equations and *rule the universe*!
When you type on those old keyboards it makes such a relaxing sound.
It takes the edge off the exceptional excitement!
End credits say it's copyright 1979, not 1977 as the KZread title suggests.
Omg can't watch.
Bellissimo video. Quel Computer era il mio sogno di adolescente. Purtroppo non ho avuto la possibilità di possedere un personal computer fino agli anni 90. Mi piace molto il modo in cui la ragazza spiega il funzionamento dei comandi BASIC.
The beginning is much like a bad intro to a pornography flick of that era. I was waiting for the moment when the two of them glace at each other lose themselves in their eyes and rapidly start undressing and have hot ass slapping sex!
I dont get why you would just type it to say hi john..what would people "program" theur computers to do?
I haven't used Level 1 basic since I bought my first Model 1 some 40 years ago - and I soon upgraded it to Level 2. Did Level 1 really accept "GO TO 10" and mash it together into the keyword I'm familiar with "GOTO"? I was fully expecting the L1 equivalent of a syntax error - but it seemed to accept it - and LIST showed the space was gone.
I could change this program to figure out my GPA (Non-weighted/non-credited)! I can excel in Algebra, too!
Apple's physical address is "One Infintite Loop"
I like how she teaches him!
Wdym
I learned BASIC on a Tandy RLX 1000
QBASIC
I love the sound of the mechanical (clicky) keyboard!
@@jackilynpyzocha662 It's not quite the same without line numbers. :)
Random Number Generator(RNG)
When printing "Hello JOHN" again and again "Now you can see how powerful this machine is". 😀
That’s exactly what I was going to say.
BASIC coding its very easy for me
This was between the dinosaurs and cellphones periods.
This series was called ADVENTURE OF THE MIND - anyone have more ep's of this ?
I had the Tandy TRS80 colour computer 2 back in 1983. I remember buying all the weekly mags with programs in that you could copy, I must of spent hours copying line after line into it.
They had voice recognition in what looks like the late 70s????
The early TRS-80 line had the ability to sample audio input with a DAC and store that as a file. It also could do some other basic stuff with audio.
Coool
Nikki Barthen was also in The Redeemer: Son of Satan! aka Class Reunion Massacre. And has no other acting credits.
The other credit is to John Hertzler in The Redeemer as well as in this BASIC learning clip. Is this the same actor from Star Trek playing a Klingon? There he was known as "J.G. Hertzler". What a coincidence having both actors in two movies shot just one year apart. This is 1979 from the copyright note at the end though, not 1977.
How do you write Z80 code on it? A friend had a TRS-80 and I programmed it back in the late 70's. Didn't know the word for semicolon so called it "Comma Dot". APPLE ][ was my favorite and I programmed back at Computer Land of Los Altos in 6502 and Basic preferably Woz's fast Integer basic instead of Microsoft slug slow floating point basic. Assembly code was the only way. BASIC sucked. CPU is fast enough to manage simple hardware sprites updated every scan line. A few TTL chips and there could of been way more awesome graphics.
I believe PEEK and POKE in the BASIC prompt is how you could get assembler in there.
Basic seems like python
Yes, a much clunkier version of it.
1979, according to the Roman numerals... Such innocent times, before the machines took over the world! LOL
I'd love to visit that year if time machines ever become a reality. All the Conservative values rising, Browns & greens, videotapes, and many of the early computers! I'd love it I could buy an Atari 800 computer brand new with all the accessories and necessary software and then travel it back to modern times to have a "Brand-New" old computer! If only!
I still own a TRS 80. This video is a back travel thru time... Thanks a lot
So glad that "LET" was omitted in Level II BASIC>
It wasn't needed in Level 1 basic. They just put it in there to make more sense to the layman. They also wrote in full syntax whereas the Level 1 was unique in that it used "shorthand" ... like instead of "print" you could put "P." and then whatever you wanted to print, instead of "FOR L = etc etc" it would be "F.L= ... etc etc".
Is she "womansplaning"? lol Relax people, just a joke.
Bruh wut?
Anyone else realize that John is General Martok?
Well how crazy is that. I sure never realized it. He said in this video that if he could learn to program a computer that he could rule the world! How funny. Thanks
@@dwaynegoforth3246 Yes too funny. J.G. Hertzler was only approximately 28 in this video. Everyone's gotta pay their bills ;-)
I just saw this video for the first time and thought “John” looked like J. G. Hertzler! That’s amazing!!!
Yes, I could tell it was him from the laugh at the beginning.
“I ‘gotta know more than this easy stuff if I’m ‘gonna take over the solar system...”
😂
Great video. The video ends with Roman numerals for 1979. At the end it says Copyright MCMLXXIX which translates to 1979. While this may have been filmed earlier, the infomercial was most likely distributed in 1979.
At 1:20 The computer responds with WHAT? to the syntax error in the typed command. So, this is a Model I Level I machine that was introduced 1977. The 1978 Model I Level II with the expanded BASIC early ROM would have answered SYNTAX ERROR. The later upgraded Model I LEVEL II BASIC ROM would have replied SN ERROR. The abbreviation of error messages was a creative way of making room for more code in ROM.
Soon, I will supply several advanced light pen programs for the TRS-80, including the Tic Tac Toe shown in the infomercial at 6:50 and the light show program, as well.
this is gold