Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:24

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On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 12:18:10 -0700 (PDT)
hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> 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 the early to mid 70s our school had a Teletype, and there was a
lunchtime BASIC class offered to a few of us. The Teletype did not connect
to a timesharing service, it connected to another Teletype to send and
receive paper tapes of programs to be run, and the results of yesterday's
runs. Getting a syntax error back was a real time waster.

	The Teletype was only available to us during break and lunch. After
school a sixth former would make the call and deal with the tapes whilst
trying to chat up the operator at the other end.

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