Software with Documentation, DEBBI Disc Extended Basic by ICOM

Description:

This blue spring binder contains an eight-inch disk with a copy of version 1.0 of DEBBI (Disk Extended Basic By ICOM) for the IMSAI 8080 microcomputer. There also is a set of sheets documenting the program. These appear to be a photocopy. Donor and user Barry Berg commented about this program that IMSAI "came out with their own disk BASIC. It was kind of a lame BASIC. It was very flexible and it was kind of buggy. But it was one first disk-based BASICs and back then there wasn't too many disk systems around. So you ran with it."

For Berg's IMSAI microcomputer, see 2010.0239.01.

Date Made: 1977

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: California, Los Angeles, Canoga Park

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Computers, Computers & Business Machines

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Credit Line: Gift of Barry S. Berg

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2012.3060.21Nonaccession Number: 2012.3060Catalog Number: 2012.3060.21

Object Name: software with documentation

Measurements: overall: 4 cm x 26.5 cm x 29.5 cm; 1 9/16 in x 10 7/16 in x 11 5/8 inoverall: 4 cm x 26.5 cm x 29.5 cm; 1 9/16 in x 10 7/16 in x 11 5/8 in

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-7b78-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1423492

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