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

2014-05-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636 ___ 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

2014-04-26 Thread Peter Dobratz
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=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a Peter On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Tom Buskey wrot

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

2014-04-23 Thread Tom Buskey
Crud, the Nashua Telegraph link is a paid only site. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ted Roche 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.

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

2014-04-22 Thread Ted Roche
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, LLC

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

2014-04-12 Thread 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 writi

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

2014-04-11 Thread Michael ODonnell
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 ou

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

2014-04-11 Thread 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 usi

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

2014-04-10 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On 2014-04-10 22:52, Curt Howland wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:07 PM, David Hardy > 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 h

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

2014-04-10 Thread Curt Howland
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:07 PM, David Hardy 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 fre

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

2014-04-10 Thread David Hardy
...while blindfolded because IT security had it as a secret route. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:08 PM, David Hardy > wrote: > > We only had sticks to scratch into mud bricks, but there were no trees > so we > > had to organize caravans into the

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

2014-04-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:08 PM, David Hardy 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

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

2014-04-10 Thread David Hardy
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 wrote: > On 4/10/2014 4:42 PM, Ray Cote wrote: > > you had 0s and

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

2014-04-10 Thread Dan Jenkins
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 gnhlu

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

2014-04-10 Thread Ray Cote
"Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the > language turns 50" -- David Brooks > > Ted Roche writes: > > > > http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-09-08/ > > http://dilbert.com/fast/1992-09-08/ > > :-) > > -- > &qu

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

2014-04-10 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ted Roche 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 wrote: > > David Brooks, the Granite Geek at the Nashua Telegraph, and an occasional > pro