Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 01:14

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On 2018-05-29, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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