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# The Jungle Jim: GOTO Statement and Program Line Storage

Two-topic column: (1) The TS1000 GOTO statement accepts a line number, variable, or numeric expression as its target — demonstrated with a program that dispatches to line 100 or 200 depending on a key press using CODE A$. (2) Technical explanation of how the TS1000 stores program lines in memory starting at 16509: two bytes for line number, two bytes for line length, keyword/character bytes, and a final ENTER byte (118). Excerpted from The Timex/Sinclair User’s Encyclopedia by G. Phillips and J. March (1984).