Having fun with BASIC-8 interpreter on the PDP-8/e at the Living Computers Museum in Seattle. Made a weird little landscape/flag generator.
I took snippets of the DEC BASIC-8 manual for the TSS/8 operating system and inserted them into a poetry generator. This is the poem. (The randomizer runs the same every time (no seeds though I could fake it) so this is in a sense *the* output.)
@darius Hell yeah, love the LCM, love the PDP.
@darius Ooh... no surprise probably that I love this
@darius user society must have an end.
@darius this is like the anti-time cube. like the time cube had a goatee.
That's... kind of apocalyptic, really. REPLACE EVERYTHING.
@darius The computer is your friend. Trust the computer.
@darius 🎶 Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do ... 🎶
@darius
This looks like a fatally broken AI about to destroy the world. 😟
@darius READY PLAYER OBVIOUS
@darius "Ready" is the icing of the cake.
@darius I had totally forgotten about Dim statements. - thanks for reminding me. VB.net is coming to .net core - a language that is persistent if nothing else!
@squirrel amusingly my Dim statement is 100% superfluous in this program and was left over from some other code
You know what's fun? Pressing a button and making this thing click and whirr and blink.