Randy and Earl cover the history of the BASIC programming language, including its origins, and the wide adoption of BASIC on 8-bit systems in the 1970s and 1980s!

• News
  • BASIC 10-Liner Contest - https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium
• Show Topic
  • https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/ 
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxo9LVIgOiI 
  • “Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer” by Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger (associate link) - https://amzn.to/3EzdPCp 
  • Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC 
  • “Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Stephen Weyrich - https://amzn.to/4hFGkNy 
  • “iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It” by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith - https://amzn.to/42ZhBzc 
  • “Commodore: A Company on the Edge” by Brian Bagnall - https://amzn.to/4gHvfdu 
  • "101 Basic Computer Games" by David H. Ahl - https://amzn.to/3QitZTg or “101 BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition” - https://amzn.to/4hABxwT 
  •  “BASIC Session”:The ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conference In Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 1978 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198404 
  • 2006 Salon Article - Why Johnny Can't Code - https://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/
  • Microsoft Small Basic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Small_Basic
  • Basic-256 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic-256
  • Quite Basic - https://www.quitebasic.com/
  • Dartmouth held a 50th anniversary celebration for BASIC on May 1st, 2014.  A short documentary film was produced for the event:
  • Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal By Harry McCraken in Time magazine - http://time.com/69316/basic/
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