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

[Jerry Feldman]

At Tulane in 1966 we had a terminal for GE timesharing. It was an ASR
33. A few of us learned BASIC at that time. Later in the mid-1970s I
worked at Burger King and one of my jobs was to restate fixed assets for
the past 5 years, also using BASIC on a terminal. I sat for hours at the
terminal writing code. And a bit later I had an original Apple II with
both integer BASIC and Applesoft BASIC.

On 04/11/2014 11:56 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote:
>
> I worked at Data Precision (Analogic) and one of our guys wrote a
> BASIC interpreter (in 68000 assembler!) for incorporation into a
> product (D6000 Waveform Analyzer) as embedded code.  I can't remember
> whether it was Kemeny or Kurtz but one of them visited circa 1982
> to give it a test drive and our guy felt honored at receiving such
> attention.  One thing that sticks in my mind was how he tried to trip
> up the interpreter to see if it properly discriminated stuff like:
>
>    FOR K = S TO P
>
> ...from this:
>
>    FORK = STOP
>
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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