video on the birth of BASIC

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(02-25-2019 03:50 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  This video was made for the 50th anniversary of BASIC at Dartmouth College in 2014. It contains lots of scenes of old GE computers and model 33 teletypes.

John Kemeny was a brilliant man.

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Thanks for that! I started using BASIC in 1965 and made my entire living writing BASIC routines. Now that I'm retired, I still use BASIC for recreational computing. There's very little that can be done in other languages that can't be done in BASIC