Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 06:03

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On 6/1/2018 1:02 PM, David Jones wrote:
> My first exposure to BASIC was back in 1975 too.  It was on a Wang 2200 that the middle school would borrow for a week or two at a time.  We'd all huddle around it and get as much time and use as we could out of it.
> 
> 

ISTM that the Wang 2200 could support up to 16 terminals, each of which 
could be used to program in BASIC.  IMO this was a machine developed ay 
Wang because they wanted the education market...  schools and colleges 
would buy the system much more often than businesses.

-- 
numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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