In English "To Boldly Go" comes from the opening of each episode of the original Star Trek TV series. I don't know if that reference survived translation to other languages!?

I had a Sinclair calculator/watch that I built from a kit when I was around 15.


Later I built a ZX80 or 81 (I can't remember which!) from a kit for a friend. I could not afford one for myself but of course it needed a lot of testing before I gave it back!

Later still I built a Spectrum which needed even more testing!

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Volt egy Sinclair számológépem/órám, amit 15 éves koromban készletből építettem.

Később ZX80 -at vagy 81 -est (nem emlékszem melyikre) építettem egy készletből egy barátomnak. Nem engedhettem meg magamnak egyet, de természetesen sok tesztelésre volt szükség, mielőtt visszaadtam!

Később mégis építettem egy spektrumot, amely még több tesztelést igényelt!

I second that book recommendation - it was *the* forth book back in the mid-1980s when IS-FORTH was written. It looks a bit cartoon-y at first glance but all the information is there in a readable format.

"The cursor translation lever..."

Good find, I don't know you are still finding new things!

Hihetetlen, hogy ezeket az ősrégi PC-s lemezeket be tudtam olvasni Enterprise-szal:

The difference between someone who uses £ as their currency and someone who doesn't!

Or maybe # is more useful than £ in IS-DOS, especially considering most use is in Hungary, so just change £ to # permanently in new IS-DOS?

Back at the very end of IS/Enterprise, Robert Madge went to Japan to try and sell IS-DOS to the MSX consortium as MSX-DOS 2, and also to try and sell a version for the 64180 using its paging features. As we now know this didn't work out, and Microsoft stole the undel feature . But a number of documents were written to support this trip including ideas for future features in IS-DOS. And in among all the jumbled up source code from Verner were these documents! They are Wordstar documents so you can read them using IS-DOS itself (or you can just about make them out in a text editor.)

I think the main things are environment variables, redirection, piping (as were in MS-DOS at the time) and... the big one... multiple simultaneous TPAs (using EP or 64180 paging) and co-operative multitasking. So you could have Wordstar running in one TPA and press Alt+TAB or something to switch to another TPA and run something else. Well you did ask!