Since details of BASICODE spread outside The Netherlands, the Dutch have received many thousands of letters. It became clear that the most popular computers in one country may not even exist in another. The idea of putting the entire BASICODE-2 protocol into Chapter Four is not only to explain it to users of computer makes already in the group, but it is hoped that experienced users of other makes will study the protocol and create translation programs for their computer. If you succeed, please do not keep it to yourself!
We will publish updates to this handbook with details of translation programs for other brands. Authors are always credited, and details of how to take part are given in the first chapter of this book.
BASICODE has grown from a simple idea for exchanging software, back in 1979, to a standard in regular use in many parts of the world. We hope you will contribute to make it even better known.