[Info-vax] Back to BASICs

[Mark Daniel]

An interesting (though more than occasionally dry) recent read on the 
development of Kemeny and Kurtz' BASIC and its associated infrastructure 
and expanding network(s) in the '60s (well before my time) and on into 
the '70s (more my time).

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A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Joy Lisi Rankin

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,
2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018009562 | ISBN 9780674970977

1 When Students Taught the Computer 12
2 Making a Macho Computing Culture 38
3 Back to BASICs 66
4 The Promise of Computing Utilities and the Proliferation of Networks 106
5 How The Oregon Trail Began in Minnesota 139
6 PLATO Builds a Plasma Screen 166
7 PLATO’s Republic (or, the Other ARPANET) 193
Epilogue; From Personal Computing to Personal Computers

   "There was an amazing world of personal computing, social computing,
    and networked computing—all before 1975—and there is so much more
    to learn about how those worlds became the ... digital culture that
    we recognize today."

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Anyone, who using social-media (though not today of course), forms an 
opinion regarding anything other than the relative cuteness of this or 
that puppy-dog, needs seriously to examine their critical thinking.