Color BASIC

Color BASIC
Designed byBill Gates
DeveloperMicrosoft
First appeared1980 (1980)
Stable release
Color BASIC 1.3 (1982)
Extended Color BASIC ("ECB") (1984)
Disk Extended Color BASIC ("DECB") (1984)
PlatformTRS-80 Color Computer

Color BASIC is the implementation of Microsoft BASIC that is included in the ROM of the Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computers manufactured between 1980 and 1991. BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a high level language with simple syntax that makes it easy to write simple programs. Color BASIC is interpreted, that is, decoded as it is run.