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I have a lot of fond memories of Visual Basic for MS-DOS 1.0.

I remember saving up for it at high school with my student discount. From memory it was about $120.

Same. My first paid programming job while I was in college was for writing VB 5 software for local businesses. The GUI builder was the obvious star, but you could also write sophisticated programs.

IIRC VB for DOS came out after the Windows version...

I remember the form designer was a standout feature. Microsoft added a complete UI framework into VB for DOS based on the standard ASCII character set.

VB for DOS really needed a version 2.0, but it never got it.

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