Texas Instruments TI-99/4A - Page 55

The sentence appears on the screen.
SCREEN 1
That sentence means nothing to the computer.
Still, your computer doesn't care right now,
because you haven't pressed ENTER yet. The
computer won't try to translate those words
into its language until you press ENTER. So, let's
press ENTER! Now, the computer will read the
sentence you just typed, discover that none of
those words are in its vocabulary, and print out
the message * INCORRECT STATEMENT, to tell
you that it doesn't understand what you said.
SCREEN 2
Instead of INCORRECT STATEMENT, the com
puter displays BADNAME if you type ina word
that has more than fifteen characters and then
press ENTER.
Beforestarting the next exercise, type the words
CALL CLEAR and press ENTER to clear the
screen.
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