Does Blitzbasic have a birthday/birth-date ?

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'Memory and Storage Technology' is bringing back fuzzy memories. I no longer have the original (the thing that I think is BB1) as I didn't really get into it and I think I was using HiSoft's Power Basic that came out a few months before it.

Does anyone actually have the original? I seem to remember it arriving in a plastic bag with like a cardboard top - a bit like what toy soldiers were packed in.

This sort of thing:


Similar sort of packaging - but obviously thin. I remember a very thin pamphlet that came with it.

Not sure if I am remembering the original Blitz or not. Anyone recollect how it was packaged?

In fact, can anyone upload a picture of it?

This has bugged me for many years now. Not sure if I really had BB1 or whether it was the pre-release bb2.

My first actual documented memories of Blitz begin in 1991; pre the BB2 v1 launch. However, the year 1990 niggles me like I am forgetting something.

I wish I still had whatever it was that arrived.

Either this one or the original BB1 was a tiny little advert in a computer magazine - one of those sort of inch by half an inch block adverts.

Memory tells me it was 1992 when the world sat up and noticed. I think a lot of UK Blitzers fell in love with it via an AF demo.