Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.
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The BASIC programming language turns 60
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My fondest memory of BASIC is when I was in middle school computer class and I made a program that looked like I had logged/hacked into the "Central Trust International Exchange" (I had recently seen the movie Wargames). This was in a room full of Apple II computers plugged into a very long square metal tube of power outlets/surge protectors.
When the teacher saw what I was doing, she freaked out, thinking I was going to get the school raided by the FBI or something and pulled the plug on the entire row of computers, wiping out not only my program but all of the work of the other kids in that row.
These computers were not even networked, much less connected to a modem.
I ended up with a detention and a call to my father, and was even further ostracized by most of the other kids for being a huge nerd and screwing up their assignment, but the other two nerdy kids in my class also thought it was hilarious.
When the teacher saw what I was doing, she freaked out, thinking I was going to get the school raided by the FBI or something and pulled the plug on the entire row of computers, wiping out not only my program but all of the work of the other kids in that row.
These computers were not even networked, much less connected to a modem.
I ended up with a detention and a call to my father, and was even further ostracized by most of the other kids for being a huge nerd and screwing up their assignment, but the other two nerdy kids in my class also thought it was hilarious.
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