Thomas E. Kurtz 95!!!

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NicTheQuick wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:46 pm???
As part of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, Kemeny and Kurtz created the BASIC programming language.
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Well, yes. But don't you think it's a bit random do just post that link here without anything more to say? I first thought this was a post from a spam bot. :lol:
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By the way, I was pleasantly surprised
http://www.dtss.org/dtss/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth ... ing_System

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In 1968, a mathematics teacher at Lakeside High School in suburban Seattle named Bill Dougall approached the school's PTA with an offer to spend three thousand dollars from the school's annual charity sale to rent a Teletype Model 30 computer terminal and buy time to connect via DTSS to a General Electric computer at a local university. He was able to convince parents that students about to go to college needed an introduction to computers, and was confident that the introduction would turn their lives around and possibly determine their future destiny. Permission was granted, and he began to teach an elective class that students could come to after their main classes. The Lakeside School thus became the only school in Seattle that had computer science classes, where BASIC was taught, and had access to a real computer. Some students rushed to take advantage of this unique opportunity. Two students in particular stood out, and they took a special interest in Dougall's classes. The boys' names were Bill Gates and Paul Allen. But that's another story...

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Rats! I was a student at Lakeside only 4 years before that in 1964. I do not recall a teacher by that name but may not have encountered him, either.

I did, however, have a computing class in 1970 at my high school, north of Seattle. We were taught Fortran. Had a big punch-card typewriter. Sent the cards to the school district's IBM 1401.
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