As a obsessive code collector,. form an early age. Today as I didn’t sleep all night. I decided to sort the old floppies I still had, and arrange my old basic programs.
I can not tell from what year it is, cause on those days programs were brand new, and even the GWBASIC we had those days didn’t save the datetime of the creation of the file (or was it the old DOS, can not remember exactly). It was from the late 80ies — something like 1987~1989…
Anyhow, had to create an Oracle VirtualBox of DOS6.22 — and create an .iso disk associated with it containing my old basic code. Due to the fact, as I said, that I am a collector of software, GWBASIC was at hand.
Had to ‘LOAD”…”‘ and ‘SAVE”….”,A’ all about 60 code programs. This command loads the GWBASIC code (which was then, stored in a binary form on the file structor). And ReSave it using the ‘,A’ flag, which mean save as ASCII.
I went back then from learning basic, then c, and then pascal and cpp. So I had some C and Old Pascal code stored as well.
This is what I call ‘Code archaeologist digging…’