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Article #623681Re: The birth of BASIC
From: J. Clarke
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 23:25
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 23:25
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On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:12:57 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> 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. It was available on the mainframe at UofF in 1973 when I had my first exposure to computers, but we also had APL, so BASIC kind of languished.
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