I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s ...