[Coco] BASIC format questions

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Mar 14 14:32:43 EDT 2017


On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:05:02AM +1100, Mark McDougall wrote:
> On 14/03/2017 7:23 AM, William Astle wrote:
> 
> > Regarding "lede" - truth be told, I've never heard of "lede". The "lede"
> > spelling is listed as "chiefly US" while the "lead" spelling is listed
> > as normal everywhere else.
> 
> You've clearly forgotten that the US is the *centre* of the world, and that
> anywhere else that does or says things differently is either
> inconsequential, or just plain wrong! ;)

Sounds reasonable...
 
> I wouldn't mind betting that John Linville steadfastly refuses to have any
> Australian Cocos in his collection, simply because they have "Colour
> Computer" written on the badge! :P

FWIW, I have British and French CoCo's, and even Welsh and Spanish
Dragons. I have a Brasilian CP-400 as well. But I don't have any way
to generate upside-down polarity power for Australian machines... ;-)

John
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