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Article #623577Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 01:00
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 01:00
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On 2018-05-29, Gareth's Downstairs Computer <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On 29/05/2018 04:29, Jon Elson wrote: > >> 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 Nice program. I particularly like the way they briefly mention Bill Gates only to point out that they were there first. >> 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. > > A moment's thought and suddenly there is nothing new under the sun ... > > AIUI, the Williams Tubes relied upon the transient charge storage on the > phosphor of the screen, and therefore not dissimilar in principle to > dynamic semiconductor RAM. What an interesting thought... -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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