About programming, a general question

[Boggess Rod]

>/snip/
>In the early 70s, I was working at a company called Maxson, In Great
>River, NY. There were a few computer "opportunities" there--an off-
>premises main-frame, accessible by acoustic modem and Teletype, with
>local storage being on punched paper tape,  a "Trash-80" Radio Shack
>device used by one of the secretaries (the rest still had to use
>typewriters) and an HP machine that I seem to remember used cassette
>tape for storage, and ran what was called HP Basic. One of the other
>engineering groups owned it, and if you were in another group (me)
>and asked real nice, they would let you use it. I used the off-
>premises machine a couple of times, and programmed that in the BASIC
>that seemed to be standard in those days--I don't remember that MS
>BASIC, when it appeared, or its successor, GW BASIC, was any different,
>but let's face it, this was almost 40 years ago! I do remember that the
>HP Basic had a couple features that "standard" basic didn't have, but
>I can't remember what they were.
>
>--doug
>--
>Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both
sides.
>  --A.M. Greeley
>
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That's it! It's called Rocky Mountain BASIC, or RMB. The features it had
(that I remember) were complex numbers and native support for matrix
calculations, but event driven operations and external I/O access were
also unusual for the day. Thanks!