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Article #623756Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:44
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:44
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On 6/1/2018 10:48 AM, 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. On the DEC-20, BASIC Plus 2 had a lot of enhancements to plain BASIC. I never used it much, but some I knew at university did fairly complex projects using this BASIC. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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