From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!5941ux!machaids!hocda!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxo!ejk47 Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: The only one with BASIC???? Article-I.D.: ihuxo.210 Posted: Tue Mar 22 07:34:47 1983 Received: Wed Mar 23 06:13:53 1983 Reply-To: ejk47@ihuxo.UUCP (Ed Kufeldt, ihux0 ejk47) As another VIC-20 owner, I thought you might like another side of the story. The VIC-20's main competition is from the TI group. Their purchase of the TI computer gets them just that. The computer, no software. You see TI is out to make a buck. They want you to buy the BASIC software from them. Also I might add the VIC-20's BASIC is made by Micro-Soft, which is now becoming the standard to rate other BASIC's by. I will also tell you that VIC-20's BASIC does lack some of the nice commands such as: renumber, auto, lprint, and others. But the nice thing is I didn't have to pay for the BASIC software, it came standard with the computer. Another thing is that I bought the VIC-20 as a computer, not a game machine. And for that, it works just fine. Plus I didn't have to spend a arm and a leg. EJK47!ihuxo