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Changement d'unités (Thomson TO)

Changement d'unités teaches students how to convert values between units using hot air balloons. It was bundled alongside several other educational programs teaching measurements.

Commented-Out Lines#

The TO9/TO8/TO9+ disk version from the Logiciels Nathan Ecoles : Mathématiques compilation has a few commented-out lines in UNITES.BAS, which are not present in any of the tape releases, including the one for the MO series. They are as follows:

  • Lines 3 to 5 contains a build date of October 9, 1984:

'
'    MONGOL.....09/10/84
'

  • Line 2500 contains an annotation for what the Z% variable does:

Original

Translated

'Z% SECONDES

SECONDS

References#


  1. VIFI Nathan ad - Microtom, Number 2, September/October 1985↩︎