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Re: BASIC inventor lecturing at Vintage Computer Festival

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"Evan Koblentz" <evan947@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi everyone -- just an announcement that Dr. Thomas Kurtz, the
> (co-)inventor of BASIC while at Dartmouth in 1964, will be giving a
> keynote lecture at the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 (May 5-6,
> 2012, at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey.)
>
> Dr. Kurtz's lecture is scheduled for noon on Saturday, May 5. It's
> open to all. Kids get in free, and adult tickets are just $10 for the
> day (or $15 for the weekend.) All proceeds benefit the non-profit
> InfoAge museum and the sponsoring user group (MARCH - Mid-Atlantic
> Retro Computing Hobbyists.)
>
> Details will be posted soon at http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/ and
> you can 'like' us at http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8. Or, you can
> email me personally at evan [at] snarc.net.
>
> - Evan Koblentz

# Is his co-inventor, John Kemeny still around?
   And is BASIC still available for the general public?  That is, are books 
on the topic sold in the average bookshop?  I haven't seen any - though, 
perhaps, they are on-line. 

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