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Article #623768Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:56
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:56
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On 01/06/2018 17:41, JimP wrote: > On 1 Jun 2018 15:52:00 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: > >> On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:12:57 -0400, 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. >> >> Gareth obviously failed to master FORTRAN. >> >> Two years after him, I did my Master's on the same teletypes. We had to >> learn POP-2, Lisp, BCPL and some others. I used BCPL and FORTRAN for my >> dissertation, and learned/used PDP-10 assembler in my spare time! > > My first use of BASIC was tokenized on a Sinclair ZX-81 with 1 > kilobyte of memory in 1984. I later got the 16Kb ram pack and used it. > Together with the de rigeur strong elastic band to hold the ram pack firmly onto its contacts ? :-)
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