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Article #623578Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 21:10
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On 30 May 2018 01:00:36 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > 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. The first to commercialize on BASIC. Without BASIC and the MITS 8800 there might not be a Microsoft company today. Would be interesting to know if CP/M then would have lead the market well into the 1990s and beyond with GEM becoming the GUI of choice and Gary if Kildall would still be alive, not going to this bar and had this fight leading to his death... -- Andreas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptoGMcls9RM
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