[cctalk] Re: Passing of T. Kurtz

Kurtz came to VCF East, did a talk, and gave out signed copies of the first edition of BASIC, the "preliminary manual". I am guessing that was 2014. For the 1965 spring semester Dartmouth College Computation Center put out a BASIC manual, the first formal one that I know of. In June 65 GE produced a version of the same manual with additional details specific to operating timeshare BASIC using a Teletype and connecting remotely to a GE 225/235 computer. I don't think they called the '64/65 version "the first edition" in their manuals specifically, but I cannot confirm this without looking it up, maybe they did. Bill