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Re: [LUG] Fwd: Blast from the past

 

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 10:35 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:

> Hm.. From the article:
> 
>    "Because there's no copy and paste, if you do something wrong it takes
>    time to go back and fix it," said Joe Gritton. "You cannot take out
>    sections and move them around."
> 
> There very much was copy & paste on the BBC from what I remember. I'm also 
> fairly sure the renumber command could move blocks of lines about too.

Yea I am sure you are right on the renumber command, after using BBC's
at school I missed that on my C64.  

The BBC's ability to use assembly language mixed in with basic was a
great feature too. 

-- 
John
http://subbass.blogspot.com/


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