From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!hou5d!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxo!ejk47
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Re:  Re: The only one with BASIC????
Article-I.D.: ihuxo.211
Posted: Tue Mar 22 12:10:57 1983
Received: Wed Mar 23 19:51:28 1983
Reply-To: ejk47@ihuxo.UUCP (Ed Kufeldt, ihux0 ejk47)

>From the amount of mail I must have made a Mistake.  I was
told the TI contains BASIC in rom.  When I first bought my
VIC I looked at the TI first.  The sales-man told me then
that all I would get was the bare-bones computer with no
software.  He said if I wanted the BASIC Interpreter that
I would have to buy a $39.95 cartridge for the TI.  Also I
was told the high-resolution graphics were buried out of the
reach of the BASIC's pokes and peeks.  At that time I was also
told that a graphics editor and a TI assembler was in the works.
This may date as to how long I had my VIC.
     The end result, and the point I tried to get across, was
that the VIC's memory mapping scheme left no area in the computer
that I could not access from BASIC.

                             ejk47!ihux0