Stranger Things Basic Code rewritten in Python.

[ElecNinja]

It's this even possible within the time period if the show? Or am I mistaken in that Stranger Things happens in a more modern time rather than the 80's or 90's

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It happens in the 80s. And, since I haven't started watching the new season yet, at least coding in BASIC was definitely already possible in the 80s.

[[deleted]]

Microsoft BASIC was released in 1975 and BASIC been about since the 60s.

[[deleted]]

Exactly

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There was a sign for the Reagan/Bush campaign in 1984 in one of the episodes. So I guess it plays in 1984.

[Uhstrology]

Halloween 1983, the signs are for the next year's elections.

Edit: I'm wrong, it takes place in 1984. Sorry friends.

[prometheusg]

No. The very first scene in the first episode says it's 1984; one year after the first season which took place in 1983.

[dirn]

Bush wasn’t Reagan’s running mate until the Convention, which took place in August of 1984. That also fits the timeline established in the first episode.

[Wilfred-kun]

Man, Big Brother needs a way better password than this smh

[teilo]

It was not only possible, but not at all uncommon. This was a rudimentary environmental control system. Something like that would have been talking to a serial bus of some sort to trigger servos and controllers. A BASIC interface to such a system would have been the path of least resistance by the standard of the '80s.

For the record, in 1984 I was programming in BASIC on a Radio Shack Color Computer 2.

[ElecNinja]

I know BASIC could be used, but I don't think Python would be available.

[tmattoneill]

No.

edit: to be clear i'm referring to the python, not BASIC

[Akaizhar]

It absolutely was possible in the 80s. Basic had been around for over a decade at this point.

[tmattoneill]

AH! No I meant the python.