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Comment by endgame

9 hours ago

The command to load a program in TI BASIC was actually "OLD <DEVICE>". Probably because they already had "NEW".

https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A_system_usage#Loadin...

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timbit42  4 hours ago

The reason it had the OLD command is because the original version of BASIC, Dartmouth BASIC, had the OLD command.

Microsoft BASICS didn't have it.

eesmith  6 hours ago

My 40 year old memories are indeed faulty. Thanks for the correction!

FWIW, I probably confused it with Commodore Basic, since part of me wanted to put a ",1" at the end of the load command.