>>Being an old QuickBASIC programmer I can tell you that integers weren't stored as 2 bytes, but one. Long integers were two bytes. I would think that this might apply to QBASIC as well.
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>I'm sorry George. Your memory is failing. Integers of just one byte would have being too short for most practical purposes (+/-127).

I just checked the QBasic help and you are, indeed, correct about the size and the fact that they're signed. I don't have QuickBASIC available to check, but I believe that (since it was pre-Win 16) that the integers there were 8 bit.