BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964.

Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

Build your own RAM: Upgrading an ancient 386 PC to 64MB RAM using custom-built memory With some courage, you can do the same By Zo Ahmed July 12, 2024, 10:19 16 comments.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually propelled generations ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...

PC-MOS/386, a 30-year-old MS-DOS clone operating system, is back as open source. ... So, if you want to revisit the good old days of MS-DOS computing and programming, have fun!

It turns out it is the original 386 computer and desk chair used by the legendary developer Sid Meier to make the original game—and there's even an early version of it on the machine's hard drive.

This working BASIC programming code interpreter likely falls into the latter block pile yet the dedication, time and effort that has gone into making it exist is quite remarkable.

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its ...

Instead, it is mostly being used for web surfing and code writing, which seems like something a regular 386 computer could handle. Nevertheless, his retro build includes an Intel Core i5-6500 CPU ...