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#1 Re: Members presentation » About the author » 2018-06-15 23:30:51
Hello Tom,
Of course I remember well Randy Rogers. How is he doing ?
O - that was back when IBC went out of business. I moved out of Southern California in the late 1990s and have not heard from anybody in California since.
Ya gotta admit
IBC was pretty fast in it's day
I kinda think part of the downfall for IBC was no industry standard bus for cards. Which made it impossible to add new types of hardware. Then later on IBC 16-bit processors you were pretty much locked into only the operating systems IBC ported.
Question - do you remember ever seeing a SYZYGY RS-232 Test-Set (the little db-25 male-female pass-through with the little red lights (rtc,cts,dte ...) ? That was me
Anyways , I'm kinda looking forward to seeing if I can write a simple database application in BASIC on your BASIC. Just trying to figure out where to download it for Ubuntu then want to see how much of the OASYS/TheOS BASIC I remember.
If the FxBasic and/or TxBasic is even anywhere close to the features of what I remember OASYS/TheOS BASIC having , then you just might have one of the best BASIC's for Linux out of them. I would really like to see BASIC come back.
Tom Jones
#2 Re: Members presentation » About the author » 2018-06-15 21:25:34
Hello jmdubois
I just now discovered your BASIC site - and just now registered as NorthIdahoTomJones so that I can access your forum/web site.
Like you, I also go way back prior to IBC (Integrated Business Computers). My former father-in-law was one of the original finical investors to help get IBC started. Back then, my company SYZYGY Computer Systems in Southern California was also an IBC repair center and we also offered medical/dental/billing systems. When IBC came out running OASYS, we switched to IBC hardware. Those days are now of the distant past. Do you rember the IBC president Randy Rogers ? When IBC closed down, Randy came to work for/with me at a computer/design company.
FYI - did you know that the author of OASIS "Timothy W Williams" had a back-door ^t^s^w login for the old 8-Bit OASIS which gave you a privilege level of 255 !
Anyways - I hope and wish you well in offering a free version of BASIC which some of us ol-timers can play with on some Ubuntu Linux machines - I look forward to remembering BASIC and using ISAM files again. It's been nearly 30 years since I wrote a decent program other than some basic shell programming on Linux.
North Idaho Tom Jones
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