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I have Win8, bought installed on a new laptop 3 months ago. I also have a Dell bluetooth mouse, and it was easy to set this up so that if it was off, the trackpad came into play, and if it was on, it gave me greater flexibility. Now, Dell on or off, the trackpad doesn't work, and I am having to...

I certainly remember those punches, Jimbo - prior to that, we all carried a little steel punch-block and stylus for punching data into 8-track flexowriter tape. None of the early machines had a screen, of course, just columns of neons which showed the data in binary form. You may have seen the...

BASIC programs - Wassock again. Thank you all for your time and useful comments: a great forum! I looked at DOSBox, which seemed to offer what I needed, but a bit complex. I have read up on the other suggestions too, and tried a virtual machine solution using XP. However, W8 seems to exert a...

Thanks for the suggestions. I wasn't detailed enough, unfortunately. My BASIC programs, written for pleasure, include one that tells you what day of the week you were born on, and another which suggests a menu for the day, based on what it 'knows' of my kitchen stocks. So, they contain text and...

I have lived with XP for years, very happily. I am now trying to get used to W8, supplied installed with a new laptop: so far, I think it is not a patch on XP apart from speed. However, I use QBASIC very often to do small scientific calculations, and can't get any of these to run in W8. Neither...