(non?)HP Basic

[J. David Bryan]

On 5 Mar 2008 at 14:11, Tim Riker wrote:

> Anyone care to comment on the flavor of basic it used?

It doesn't appear to be any of the HP 1000, 2000, or 3000 BASICs.  99% of 
the lines would pass for any of these, but these statements are 
unrecognized:

  10  FILES = ".D&D"

The HP FILES statement has either unquoted filenames or * characters to be 
referenced by later ASSIGN statements.  Also, the filename shown would be 
illegal.

  2070  ON FNA(3) THEN 2110,2140

The ON...THEN statement is implemented as GOTO...OF in HP BASICs.

  2440  PRINT "LOAD .DRAGN"

PRINTing a command certainly wouldn't execute it in HP BASICs.

There were a few BASIC interpreters that were part of the 1000, 2000, and 
3000 contributed libraries.  Perhaps this is one of these, although the odd 
filename seems to argue against it.

Was this the dialect that was running on the 2114B?

                                      -- Dave