15 Nov
2024
15 Nov
'24
2:29 p.m.
Today another giant in the ‘microcomputer’ industry has passed: Thomas
Eugene Kurtz a computer scientist, co-creator/inventor with John Kemeny of
the BASIC language that I grew up with. Somewhat dates me!
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂
15 Nov
15 Nov
4:25 p.m.
I just saw.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-14/thomas-kurtz-co-creator-…
On Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 9:36 AM Murray McCullough via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Today another giant in the ‘microcomputer’ industry
has passed: Thomas
Eugene Kurtz a computer scientist, co-creator/inventor with John Kemeny of
the BASIC language that I grew up with. Somewhat dates me!
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂
16 Nov
16 Nov
1:29 a.m.
On 11/15/2024 9:29 AM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Today another giant in the ‘microcomputer’ industry
has passed: Thomas
Eugene Kurtz a computer scientist, co-creator/inventor with John Kemeny of
the BASIC language that I grew up with. Somewhat dates me!
I still have my copy of The Book.
bill
1:49 a.m.
Which "The Book" are you talking about.
For me it would be Dartmouth Basic 6th Edition that I got in 1972 at
Keiwit Computation Center at Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire.
Unfortunately my copy of 6th edition is long bone but I still have my
copy of TM115 Basic 7 User's Guide Dartmouth College Computing dated 1981.
I initially learned BASIC from the book Basic Basic by James S. Coan
while programming on a 4K PDP-8/L with an ASR-33 for the console and
paper tape "mass" storage in 1972.
On 11/15/2024 7:29 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 11/15/2024 9:29 AM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Today another giant in the ‘microcomputer’
industry has passed: Thomas
Eugene Kurtz a computer scientist, co-creator/inventor with John
Kemeny of
the BASIC language that I grew up with. Somewhat dates me!
I still have my copy of The Book.
bill
2:03 a.m.
I got my book at the Kiewit Computation Center at Dartmouth in 1972 and
by then it was 6th Edition. Currently I have the 7th Edition book.
My first book on basic was Basic Basic by James S. Coan also in 1972.
On 11/16/2024 7:25 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 11/15/2024 8:49 PM, Mike Katz wrote:
Which "The Book" are you talking
about.
BASIC PROGRAMMING Second Edition By John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Is there any other authority on BASIC?
bill
2:32 a.m.
On 11/15/2024 8:49 PM, Mike Katz wrote:
Which "The Book" are you talking
about.
BASIC PROGRAMMING Second Edition By John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz
Is there any other authority on BASIC?
bill
16 Nov
16 Nov
1:57 a.m.
Here is T. Kurtz describing the original BASIC syntax:
https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/commands.html
On 11/15/2024 7:29 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 11/15/2024 9:29 AM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Today another giant in the ‘microcomputer’
industry has passed: Thomas
Eugene Kurtz a computer scientist, co-creator/inventor with John
Kemeny of
the BASIC language that I grew up with. Somewhat dates me!
I still have my copy of The Book.
bill
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