shorthand BASIC - allows BASIC programs to be typed two or three times as tast as normal

One of the less pleasant aspects of programming is having to spend hours just typing in a BASIC program. You arrive at line 8760 and shorthand BASIC elektor december 1984 have to type: P-O-K-E-PT; something similar and wonder how secretaties can type the whole day long. Fortunately there is a cure for this ailment. Shortened forms of the BASIC instructions can be used: for example 0 for POKE, C for ASC, M for MID$ and so on. All that is needed to enable this shorthand to be used is a small machine code program intended for 6502-based systems, and the Junior Computer in particular. Then you can concentrate on your program instead of having to worry about the typing. The purpose of the machine code pro- gram given here is to provide an abbrevi- ation for a number of BASIC instructions (particularly the long ones, like RIGHT$) so that they do not have to be typed out longhand every time. A single letter will be enough to identify an instruction if it is preceded by the ASCII code 1BH...