News The BASIC programming language turns 60 — Dartmouth BASIC started it all in 1964

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Dartmouth BASIC turns 60 years old since its May 1, 1964 debut.

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[Unolocogringo]

Brings back fond memories of leaning basic in high school. Circa 1978-79.
Well what I remember of it ,......

 

[AlskiOnTheWeb]

When PEEK and POKE were added to BASIC ... it enabled all manner of tremendous hardware register access. It was a great language to use as you never felt far from the machine itself.

 

[rgd1101]

my first programming language
10 print
20 goto

 

[Corwin65]

You've never experienced true BASIC programming unless you've attached the keyboard paddles to an Atari 2600 and typed code that would be gone once you turned it off.