Randy and Earl cover the history of the BASIC programming language, including its origins, and the wide adoption of BASIC on 8-bit systems in the 1970s and 1980s!
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- News
- BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium
- Show Topic
- “Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer” by Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger (associate link) - https://amzn.to/3EzdPCp
- Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC
- “Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Stephen Weyrich - https://amzn.to/4hFGkNy
- “iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It” by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith - https://amzn.to/42ZhBzc
- “Commodore: A Company on the Edge” by Brian Bagnall - https://amzn.to/4gHvfdu
- "101 Basic Computer Games" by David H. Ahl - https://amzn.to/3QitZTg or “101 BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition” - https://amzn.to/4hABxwT
- “BASIC Session”:The ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conference In Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 1978 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198404
- 2006 Salon Article - Why Johnny Can't Code - https://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/
- Microsoft Small Basic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Small_Basic
- Basic-256 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic-256
- Quite Basic - https://www.quitebasic.com/
- Dartmouth held a 50th anniversary celebration for BASIC on May 1st, 2014. A short documentary film was produced for the event:
- Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal By Harry McCraken in Time magazine - http://time.com/69316/basic/
- Other Links
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