Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:15

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On 01/06/2018 14:58, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 7:33:18 AM UTC-6, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>> On 01/06/2018 14:14, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> 
>>> 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
> Symbolic
>> Instruction Code
> 
> FTFY
> 
> John Savard
> 

I knew that, so what did I type?

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