"Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50" -- David Brooks

[Tom Buskey]

I think I had that book too.

I was lucky enough to grow up near Dartmouth.  They gave free accounts to
local high school students and I was also lucky enough to have a father
with a TI Silent 700 teletype terminal.  He had it to do HVAC calculations
with an air conditioner company.  I ended up using it way more.

Our school had a dial up to Tymeshare Corp on a teletype.  I learned BASIC
there before learning to dial up Kiewitt.

A year later, we had Commodore CBMs (and a PET) which I used, but I
continued with Dartmouth Basic (7?) and the chat conference on DTSS.




On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Curt Howland <Howland at priss.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:07 PM, David Hardy <belovedbold357 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > ...while blindfolded because IT security had it as a secret route.
>
> Too bad I don't live in Nashua.
>
> I learned basic from a book, Basic BASIC, a year before I had my first
> computer.
>
> --
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> and the secret of freedom is courage.
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