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Article #623738Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:33
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:33
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On 01/06/2018 14:14, Scott Lurndal wrote: > 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. > BASIC (an acronym) is Beginner's All Purpose Instruction Code
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