From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Fwd: [ih] NYT: Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 16:33:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W6CvfH2+Ar+JUS74hTyMPuwENx92nvSBjx60R==ZeY7Sw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01f401db3932$4b17f190$e147d4b0$@glassblower.info>
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I don't believe this was sent here yet. BASIC is much maligned, but was
important nonetheless.
- Dan C.
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From: Tony Patti via Internet-history <internet-history@elists.isoc.org>
Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 3:50 PM
Subject: [ih] NYT: Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language,
Dies at 96
To: <internet-history@elists.isoc.org>
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/technology/thomas-kurtz-dead.html
(published yesterday November 16, 2024)
"At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones,
he worked to give more students access to computers.
That work helped propel generations into a new world."
Me too, I owe it all to BASIC.
Because 5 decades earlier, via an ASR 33 Teletype and acoustic coupler at
110 baud
to a remote HP 2100, BASIC was my introduction to computers and programming.
Tony Patti
(ARPAnet NIC IDENT "TP4")
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