[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: 2007/06/05 Tue PM 07:02:25 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Microsoft Surface...

>On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>
>>> Exactly, and that's the whole point: the topic was what Microsoft did
>>> before the IBM PC... :)
>>
>> Well, among other things, in 1979 they had a BASIC compiler for Radio
>> Shack's TRS-DOS on the TRS-80 Mod II ....
>
>Don't forget Applesoft BASIC on the Apple II series and the BASIC on the
>Commodore 128 and just about every other 8-bitter out there that had
>BASIC in-ROM.

TRS-80 Model I and Model II each had COBOL and FORTRAN compilers too.

Lionel