B A S I C 50 years old

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in
Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run
programs on the school’s General Electric computer system 50 years ago
this week–at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, to be precise.

The two math professors deeply believed that computer literacy would
be essential in the years to come, and designed the language–its name
stood for “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code”–to be as
approachable as possible. It worked: at first at Dartmouth, then at
other schools.


http://time.com/69316/basic/

 

Sinclair ZX81 from PSIS about then. Games were hard to find that were
load and play. There was a magazine that had game code in it. Makes me
much more appreciative of current systems.

Pooh

 

Unlike poltics.

 

Only problem with it was the keyboard. I've seen several recent
cellphones with bigger ones :O)

Pooh