07-08-2024, 07:47 AM
For me BASIC started around 1978; BASIC compiler around 1981 I guess.
But my gold BASIC time was definitely 1987-1992 when building a lot of business systems in MS Prof.Basic Dev. System 7(.1)
Lots of small businesses wanted some basic automations that really boosted productivity.
I remember a chain of garden/outdoor shops wanting to automatically read all cash registers every night (over modems) and totalling them in the central system; it took $20k to implement but it saved them $10k a month in dayly manual labor...
Those were the days that business cases were easy and straightforward without all the imaginary future dream advantages
But my gold BASIC time was definitely 1987-1992 when building a lot of business systems in MS Prof.Basic Dev. System 7(.1)
Lots of small businesses wanted some basic automations that really boosted productivity.
I remember a chain of garden/outdoor shops wanting to automatically read all cash registers every night (over modems) and totalling them in the central system; it took $20k to implement but it saved them $10k a month in dayly manual labor...
Those were the days that business cases were easy and straightforward without all the imaginary future dream advantages
45y and 2M lines of MBASIC>BASICA>QBASIC>QBX>QB64 experience