Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Jon Elson
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 03:29

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Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> I found this IMO interesting video about the birth of BASIC on
> YouTube. It also shows some old IBM and other machines used back in the
> 1960s.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw
First picture is John von Neuman (horribly mispelled in subtitles) standing 
to the side of the IAS computer, with its rows of Williams tubes.  All 
vacuum tubes, built from 1946 - 1951 in Princeton, NJ.  Now at the 
Smithsonian.

Jon

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