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Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] daddyjones@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Ah memories! I wrote the project for my GCSE computer studies on this. I also wrote my friends project for 20 quid since our teacher was rubbish and hadn't actually taught anyone to program. Most of the other kids figured it out, but my friend was clueless and didn't want to completely fail the subject.