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Boring story time!

I grew up on the MSX. My dad bought two of them in around 1985 or so. At school we were taught Logo on BBC Micros, but we didnt have a BBC micro at home, so my dad sourced MSX Logo [1].

Unfortunately, it was localized in dutch, so instead of the "forward" command, there was the "vooruit" command. So to make it the same as we learned in school, my dad made a set of English functions which wrapped all the Dutch functions. He is an economist/diplomat, not a programmer, and it was quite a few years until I realized what he had done and how impressive that was.

[1] http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/philips/msx-logo/relea...



This isn't a boring story!

I wish there was a site where this kind of information could be collected. Personal history of computing is important and a lot of it is being lost.


Actually, old-computers.com lets people post personal stories about the machines they have in their museum.

example: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=90

I wish it was used more/better known though.


There is one for Apple.

http://www.folklore.org/index.py


Apple 1 and Apple ][ history http://apple2history.org/history/ah01/


How did he make the wrapper functions persist between sessions?


Some LOGOs allow you to save and load a default workspace, complete with words you have taught LOGO. Google has failed me with MSX Logo however.


They were saved to disk. I'm not sure if he overwrote the disk logo came on, or we used a different disk. It was 25 years ago :)




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