When a tipster came to us with the line “One dollar BASIC computer”, it intrigued us enough to have a good look at [Stan6314]’s TinyBasRV computer. It’s a small PCB that forms a computer running BASIC ...

Anyone whose first computing experience came in the form of an 8-bit home computer will tell you about booting straight into a BASIC interpreter. The machine invited you to program it, and no doubt ...

In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to Microsoft BASIC 1.1 and ported it from the 8080 processor to the MOS 6502 microprocessor. Gates had always intended this BASIC to run on more than just the ...

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I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...

The Goodwill Industries Basic Skills Computer Course for women is set to close registration this Tuesday.

The Macomb County Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service is offering a summer-time basic computer class for youths, based on the fact there is a rising demand for high-paying computer ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.

Thomas Eugene Kurtz, the co-founder of the BASIC programming language, has died at the age of 96. BASIC, which was developed for the purpose of education, popularized computer programming making it ...