Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:48

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On 31/05/2018 22:12, Andreas Kohlbach 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.
> 

I met BASIC in 1975 on a 370/135 running the online operating system 
MUSIC. IBM had added many enhancements.

On a VAX I used DEC's BASIC to format printouts since it had advanced 
string handling facilities.

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