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Birth of BASIC

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2014 38 min Dartmouth en YouTube

Professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz along with a band of Dartmouth undergraduates invent the Basic computer language.

Chapters

  1. 0:00 Start
  2. 1:46 John Kemeny
  3. 6:04 Data Transfer Rate
  4. 8:23 George Cook
  5. 12:14 Time-Sharing
  6. 12:17 What Was Time-Sharing
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