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From: Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: BASIC is 50
Date: 30 Apr 2014 10:46:39 GMT
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:42:44 -0700, Ant wrote:

> On 4/30/2014 2:34 AM PT, Gordon Henderson typed:
> 
>> So there you go. I'm a shade older than BASIC but wouldn't have
>> appreciated it at the time...
>>
>> More here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/
>>
>> The first BASIC program appears to be:
>>
>>    10 LET X = (7 + 8) / 3 20 PRINT X 30 END
>>
>> but of-course millions of us (not me, of-course!) did the
>>
>>    10 PRINT "<insert name here> IS <expletive> COOL!"
>>    20 GOTO 10
>>
>> then ran out of the shop...
>>
>> Gordon

> I learned BASIC on Apple 2s as a callow ant. :)

I learned it on teletypes like those in the pictures. Using the book 
written by Kemeny and Kurtz.


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