On: Fifty Years of BASIC

[DanBC]

I've mentioned it a few times before but here's a project where a simple computer (using VGA and a PC keyboard) runs BASIC.

http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

> The Colour Maximite is a small and versatile single chip computer running a full featured BASIC interpreter with 128K of working memory and eight colours on a VGA monitor. It will work with a standard PC keyboard and because the Maximite has its own built in SD memory card and BASIC language you need nothing more to start writing and running BASIC programs.

[fit2rule → DanBC]

In the same spirit, you should check out LOAD81 (from antirez, the redis guy):

http://github.com/antirez/load81

Really wonderful toy!