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video on the birth of BASIC
02-28-2019, 09:29 PM
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(02-28-2019 09:00 PM)BruceH Wrote:  Thanks Don, for the pointer. A nicely made documentary, one where people just talk rather than stand on mountain tops being filmed by helicopter just to deliver half a line.

The YouTube comments contain this classic: "It's not Ron Doyman, it's Von Neumann, probably the most famous guy, how can the subtitler not know this guy..."

Yeah, I noticed that too, along with some other subtitling goofs. I have a hunch that the subtitler was not a human being.

I think that this video was shown at the BASIC 50th anniversary celebration at Dartmouth in 2014. I had planned to attend that but the money I was saving for the trip was "re-programmed", probably for some Ebay purchase I don't even remember now.
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video on the birth of BASIC - Don Shepherd - 02-25-2019, 03:50 PM
RE: video on the birth of BASIC - ijabbott - 02-26-2019, 08:44 AM
RE: video on the birth of BASIC - ijabbott - 02-28-2019, 12:01 AM
RE: video on the birth of BASIC - KeithB - 02-26-2019, 04:30 PM
RE: video on the birth of BASIC - Namir - 02-26-2019, 12:38 PM
RE: video on the birth of BASIC - BruceH - 02-28-2019, 09:00 PM
RE: video on the birth of BASIC - Don Shepherd - 02-28-2019 09:29 PM



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