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