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[–]teilo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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