Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their ... a time-sharing system to open computer access to all at Dartmouth. The simplicity and power of BASIC quickly made it a favorite ...

The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for those who weren't around in 1987, was a multi-user MS-DOS clone by Norcross, GA's The Software Link. It ran most standard DOS and 386's ...

Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it.

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny ...

But, for many beginners from the mid-60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming. Also: Dell turns 40: How a teenager transformed $1,000 worth of PC parts into a ...

We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never ...

Gone were commands like “EBCDIC ARRAY E [0:11],” replaced by a simple “HELLO” to begin programming and a delightful “READY” prompt that showed the computer was listening. BASIC was ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer ... programming manual that came with the Spectrum. The book was full of simple programs written in the accessible BASIC programming ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...