Poke And Peek

POKE and PEEK - magical keywords available in many (1980's era) Basic languages (Apple II, TimexSinclair?, TRS-80, Commodore 64) to directly write and read memory values by address.

Much of my youth computing time was spent dutifully typing in POKE statements from computer hobbyist magazines - assembly program data entry. -- SteveYen

Prior to that era, many computers had equivalent command line facilities (or operator commands), and some still do.


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