Historical Use
It was generally more common for computer users of the day (most who knew how to program in BASIC to some degree) to use the BLOAD command to load a graphics image that had been BSAVED than to load a BSAVED executable or data image.
Most early drawing programs allowed their graphics images to be BSAVED, making them easily available by an average user to be BLOADED back into video memory and viewed in a simple external program written in BASIC.
Read more about this topic: BSAVE (graphics Image Format)
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