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In article <8it63l$8ts$1@news.ycc.yale.edu>, 
karger@fermi2.chem.yale.edu wrote:
>I've been looking around for old manuals too. A post to clbm didn't produce
>any responses. I've found a couple, but part of the problem is that there
>are a lot of different BASICs. It would be nice to find a manual for, say,
>GW-BASIC or Applesoft, which were at least standards of a sort because they
>were popular.

You might try second hand joints flogging or storing old PCs.
IIRC the GW-BASIC manual came with the MSDOS manual for some
systems years ago (it was also a separate item with others IIRC).

As for Applesoft -- try finding out how to print in that thing!
It's there, but it took some finding because the Apple II seemed
to assume no one had a printer attached.  (In fact I'm not even
sure at this distance that the Applesoft manual mentioned it at
all; the solution may have been embedded in the fine print in one
of the other manuals that came with the system.  You had to poke
values into memory to redirect output to the printer port; there
was no simple LPRINT as in the comparable (but friendlier) TRS80
BASIC.)

Cheers,  Ian S.

ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au