[Permanent Preservation Edition] Were there actually two sets of the "8-bit PC Big Three"? A complete history of the domestic PCs that pioneered Japan's IT dawn thro…

The Big Three of the first generation weren't Fujitsu, but Hitachi's Basic Master, weren't they!From the late 1970s to the ...
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Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

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 ...
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Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC, a key piece of computing history

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...
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Remembering Thomas Kurtz, Co-creator of BASIC

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 ...
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Bill Gates Shares The Code That Launched Microsoft

In the week that Microsoft opens the original DOS we revisit a possibly more important release. Last year, to celebrate Microsoft's 50th Anniversary, Bill Gates shared the original Altair BASIC Source ...