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Article #623737Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:14
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:14
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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes: >On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:12:57 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach ><a...@spamfence.net> wrote: > >>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. > >It was available on the mainframe at UofF in 1973 when I had my first >exposure to computers, but we also had APL, so BASIC kind of >languished. Basic (not an acronym) was also available in 1974 on the mainframe at UWEC. We also had ALGOL.
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