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From: isaac@gethen.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Sophisticated LOGO ?
Summary: Or even simple stuff
Message-ID: <1128@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 88 03:16:22 GMT
References: <2131@netmbx.UUCP>
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <2131@netmbx.UUCP>, morus@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas M.) writes:
> As a LOGO fanatic I would be very interested if there were any
> PC-based LOGO-implementations which use features like high
> resolution graphics (EGA, VGA), extended memory, multiple
> turtles, function closures, macros and the like.
> If you know of any new developments, please let me know and
> supply, if possible, some dealer, distributor, etc.

After seeing that intriguing (if somewhat off the wall) series,
*Computer Science Logo Style*, I keep meaning to look for even a simple
PC implementation of the LCSI version.  I gather the version information
in CSLS is a little out of date -- I'd settle for information even on a
basic version.

On a related problem:  I recently picked up for very cheap a TI 99A.
This piece of hardware is *truely* an orphan, it doesn't even have a
power cable.  The only reason I bothered is a dim memory that the
machine had a good ROM based Logo.  Indeed, the machine rather looks
like it was designed by someone who read Paypert's claim that a simple
computer should be to the kid of the 80s what a pencil was to a kid of
the 50s.  But now I wonder if it's worth the trouble.  There are still
fanatics for this hardware, but none seem interested in Logo.