>It's always enlightening to find out that something that took you days or weeks to write has been replaced with a built in function. BTW, in researching this, I just about fell off my chair when I found SYS(2600). <g>

ZX Spectrum and others of that crop had a Peek() function (and the more dangerous Poke command), and there were functions which would do sys(2600) in some extensions of the Basic.

The funny part is that it took 25 years to make a full round :).