IBM 650 computer "optimum programming"

[Don Shepherd]

(03-15-2020 09:16 AM)ijabbott Wrote:  That reminds me of The Story of Mel.

Thanks Ian, that is interesting.

Dartmouth College, where the language BASIC was born in 1964, originally had an LGP-30 drum-based computer in 1959, and the students there developed a FORTRAN-like programming language as well as an ALGOL-like language on that machine. In 1964 Dartmouth received a GE-225 computer and the students developed BASIC on it.