BASIC is 50 years old!

[Katie Wasserman]

Quote:None of the BASIC's I learned in the '80s used that term. I first encountered it when playing around with a TI99 (last year). I later saw it used in the movie, "Colossus The Forbin Project". This 1970 movie predates the TI. CDC provided the computers. I found a CDC BASIC manual that also used "OLD" for load.

I used TOPS-20 BASIC (actually, BASIC-PLUS-2) in the early 80's and it had the OLD command. I think that other variants of DEC BASIC also had the OLD command too. (I should probably remember this better as I taught intro programming courses in BASIC running on DEC machines.)