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Re: Rocky Mountain Basic

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Post by wildzzz » Thu, Dec 23, 2021, 12:27 AM UTC

Occasionally, I'll use an old piece of test equipment at work that has GPIB. I'll pull up the manual for commands and there will be BASIC code examples.

The newest boxes from Keysight (formerly Agilent formerly HP) that run Windows use C# for macros. But you really don't need to use it if you have the box networked and send SCPI commands to it.

Re: Rocky Mountain Basic

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Post by bitwize » Thu, Dec 23, 2021, 4:04 AM UTC

One of the computers that used RMB was the HP 9845. This computer had a CRT display that could draw up to 4096 colors, which was phenomenal at the time. It was used to do scientific visualizations and stuff; Colin Cantwell consulted on its design, and used it to create the NORAD graphics in WarGames.

Re: Rocky Mountain Basic

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Post by 29athrowaway » Thu, Dec 23, 2021, 4:21 AM UTC

drewzero1 wrote: post #17

29athrowaway wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my first program was something like: - What is your name? - is dumb, haha

Me too. One time I messed with my friend by adding a conditional to complement every name except his. 10 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME"; 20 INPUT NAME$ 30 IF NAME$ = "BILL" THEN 40 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A NAME FOR A DORK!" 50 ELSE 60 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT NAME!" 70 END IF I also tried to prank people with a program I wrote that mimicked a BSOD, but I couldn't get anyone to fall for it. PS- No hard feelings…

Formatted version (HN supports code sections by indenting 4 spaces):

    10 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME";
    20 INPUT NAME$
    30 IF NAME$ = "BILL" THEN
    40 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A NAME FOR A DORK!"
    50 ELSE
    60 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT NAME!"
    70 END IF

Re: Rocky Mountain Basic

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Post by drewzero1 » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 2:15 AM UTC

29athrowaway wrote: post #23

drewzero1 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me too. One time I messed with my friend by adding a conditional to complement every name except his. 10 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME"; 20 INPUT NAME$ 30 IF NAME$ = "BILL" THEN 40 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A NAME FOR A DORK!" 50 ELSE 60 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT NAME!" 70 END IF I also tried to prank people with a program I wrote that mimicked a BSOD, but I couldn't get anyone to fall for it. PS- No hard feelings…

Formatted version (HN supports code sections by indenting 4 spaces): 10 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME"; 20 INPUT NAME$ 30 IF NAME$ = "BILL" THEN 40 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A NAME FOR A DORK!" 50 ELSE 60 PRINT NAME$+" SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT NAME!" 70 END IF

Ooh, didn't know about the newlines not printing as typed. Thanks for the tip!