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Introduction I originally learned to program in grade 10, where my highschool had a DEC LA36 DECwriter terminal connected through a 300 baud modem to a local college’s DEC PDP-11 running the RSTS-11 operating system. We wrote programs in the built-in BASIC programming language. This was 1976 back before structured programming took off where programs…

10 REM TL;DR My Raspberry Pi 400 boots from this: To this. BBC BASIC! This blog post is what parts I smashed together to make this work and why. 20 PRINT “HELLO” 40 years ago this Christmas, I got my first “personal computer”. It was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KiB of RAM and a tape deck for storage. Every time I powered it on, like all ‘81 owners, I was greeted with this.