August 28, 2011 [Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino.

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600.

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60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.