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From: larry@lunar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Sophisticated LOGO ?
Message-ID: <2120001@lunar.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 88 16:47:38 GMT
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Organization: just me in NJ
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> 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.

I've used it.  It's good.  The only reasons I don't still use it
are that my hardware is busted, the kids lost interest, more important
things have come up, and I have a different version of Logo for HP
computers that a friend wrote.  One of these days I'm gonna fire it
up again and have some fun.

Larry Fenske
lunar!larry