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Article #623676Re: The birth of BASIC
From: J. Clarke
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 23:25
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 23:25
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On Tue, 29 May 2018 18:07:49 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >On Mon, 28 May 2018 22:29:15 -0500, 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 >> 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. > >Ignore the automated created subtitles. They even say ARGOR when AEGOL >was meant. I'm pretty sure that ALGOL was meant.
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