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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BASIC, LAN Parties, & Screwdrivers

"Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC lineage powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Applesoft BASIC and helped millions of new programmers learn."

This supports BASIC as a major gateway language in the home-computer era and ties the same lineage to several mass-market machines.

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Source title Bringing BASIC back: Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source
Source authors Scott Hanselman; Stacey Haffner
Source year 2025
Confidence high
Importance high
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