Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: hanc...
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 19:18

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On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 5:03:15 PM UTC-4, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> Other providers like the mentioned Honeywell might have provided BASIC,
> but it were the commercial available computers for the novice in the late
> 70s and mid 80s kicking off people dealing with BASIC and writing
> programs. Just because it came with their computer.

>From the late 1960s onward, many schools got Teletypes and timesharing
and offered BASIC classes.

In 1968, our school district had GE Timesharing.

(Some school districts had other kinds of computers.)

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