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Article #623609Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:14
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:14
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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: >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. > HP-3000 had a nice BASIC interpreter as well.
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