Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
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Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
There's always the Google Cached version of the article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m50mbLKkcpcJ:www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1034601-469/10-print-basic-turns-50---20.html+cd=1hl=enct=clnkgl=usclient=firefox-a Peter On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Crud, the Nashua Telegraph link is a paid only site. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: And Brady Carlson of NHPR talks with David: http://nhpr.org/post/basic-how-dartmouth-helped-open-programming-and-gaming-everybody And the article: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1034601-469/10-print-basic-turns-50---20.html Hope a few of you got in touch. -- Ted Roche Associates, LLChttp://www.tedroche.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
Crud, the Nashua Telegraph link is a paid only site. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: And Brady Carlson of NHPR talks with David: http://nhpr.org/post/basic-how-dartmouth-helped-open-programming-and-gaming-everybody And the article: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1034601-469/10-print-basic-turns-50---20.html Hope a few of you got in touch. -- Ted Roche Associates, LLChttp://www.tedroche.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
And Brady Carlson of NHPR talks with David: http://nhpr.org/post/basic-how-dartmouth-helped-open-programming-and-gaming-everybody And the article: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1034601-469/10-print-basic-turns-50---20.html Hope a few of you got in touch. -- Ted Roche Associates, LLChttp://www.tedroche.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
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 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
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 howl...@priss.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:07 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@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. -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
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 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com writes: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-09-08/ http://dilbert.com/fast/1992-09-08/ :-) -- 'tis an ill wind that blows no minds. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: David Brooks, the Granite Geek at the Nashua Telegraph, and an occasional promoter of things Linux and Open Source, posts: BASIC turns 50 on May 1, and Dartmouth, where the programming language was born, is ramping up for the birthday. I'd like to do something myself, so if you're a Nashua-area person who has memories of working/playing with BASIC, I'd love to hear about it. Email me (dbro...@nashuatelegraph.com) and we'll go from there. Full post and links here: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/granitegeek/1033609-468/ attention-graying-geeks-send-me-your-basic.html -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
you had 0s and 1s? All we had were ups and downs (toggle switches)... - Original Message - From: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com To: Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:50:19 PM Subject: Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com writes: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-09-08/ http://dilbert.com/fast/1992-09-08/ :-) -- 'tis an ill wind that blows no minds. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: David Brooks, the Granite Geek at the Nashua Telegraph, and an occasional promoter of things Linux and Open Source, posts: BASIC turns 50 on May 1, and Dartmouth, where the programming language was born, is ramping up for the birthday. I'd like to do something myself, so if you're a Nashua-area person who has memories of working/playing with BASIC, I'd love to hear about it. Email me (dbro...@nashuatelegraph.com) and we'll go from there. Full post and links here: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/granitegeek/1033609-468/ attention-graying-geeks-send-me-your-basic.html -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Ray Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. We Build Software www.AppropriateSolutions.com 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
On 4/10/2014 4:42 PM, Ray Cote wrote: you had 0s and 1s? All we had were ups and downs (toggle switches)... I just had holes. (paper tape and punch cards) Yes, and up and down too. -- Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
We only had sticks to scratch into mud bricks, but there were no trees so we had to organize caravans into the mountains and then carry the logs back ourselves in desert heat and sand. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: On 4/10/2014 4:42 PM, Ray Cote wrote: you had 0s and 1s? All we had were ups and downs (toggle switches)... I just had holes. (paper tape and punch cards) Yes, and up and down too. -- Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Sent from whatever machine I might be on right now. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:08 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com wrote: We only had sticks to scratch into mud bricks, but there were no trees so we had to organize caravans into the mountains and then carry the logs back ourselves in desert heat and sand. ... uphill both ways. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
...while blindfolded because IT security had it as a secret route. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:08 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com wrote: We only had sticks to scratch into mud bricks, but there were no trees so we had to organize caravans into the mountains and then carry the logs back ourselves in desert heat and sand. ... uphill both ways. -- Ben -- Sent from whatever machine I might be on right now. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:07 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@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. -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks
On 2014-04-10 22:52, Curt Howland wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:07 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@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. I hear e-mail traverses regional boundaries. Of course, if submitted via RFC 6214's transport protocol, you'd better start soon... (I learned BASIC on an Atari 2600. No, really -- using one of these... OH MY GOD IT WAS WITH THIS EXACTLY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFo6nmVjCg4 . Truly, the Internet is an amazing invention. Of course, the keyboard doesn't have the alpha overlays I had, but you get the idea.) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
