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Article #623680Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 21:12
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On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:56:45 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote: > > On 31/05/2018 17:37, Bob Eager wrote: >> >> I learned BASIC in 1971. Our textbook was the one by Kemeny and Kurtz. > > I did my 3rd year engineering assignments in 1972 in BASIC on > the teletypes of the PDP10 at Essex Uni, when we were all expected > to do it in FORTRAN as had been taught :-) Am probably too young. I first came in contact with BASIC when I had the Commodore 64 around 1983. -- Andreas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptoGMcls9RM
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