Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:51

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On 01/06/2018 16:48, Andrew Swallow wrote:
> 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.

The original paper tape BASIC lacked RIGHT$, LEFT$ and MID$   :-(

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