From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: basic(1) limits changed 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2506
Posted: Tue Oct  5 16:31:39 1982
Received: Tue Oct  5 16:31:39 1982

At Andy's request, and since nobody else voiced any opinions, BASIC's
size limits have been shuffled a little.  It now allows only 500
statements (instead of the previous 700) but has 6K available for
DATA statements.