Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:08

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On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 3:11:14 AM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:

> However, BASIC for the Honeywell 316 and 516 came with a price tag, IIRC. And 
> there was CALL/360 BASIC from IBM, and I think Tymshare had BASIC... so I don't 
> think Microsoft was the first to charge money for a BASIC interpreter.

GE Timesharing offered BASIC.

HP offered its 2000 series with BASIC and was popular in time sharing.
But I don't know if users of the 2000 series had to pay for the
compiler or if it was bundled in.

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