[geeks] [rescue] BASIC

[Lionel Peterson]

On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Dave Fischer <dave at cca.org> wrote:

> nate at portents.com writes:
>
>> No experience with that in particular, but this reminds me of  
>> something
>> I've been wondering lately... is there any measure of the impact of  
>> BASIC
>> on computing?  The reason I ask is that it wasn't until recently  
>> that I
>> realized that Wang 2200 series ran a microcoded interpreted BASIC
>> (dialects such as Wang BASIC and BASIC-2), which other companies have
>> since developed compilers for... I was rather shocked at the idea of
>> microcoding an interpreted language into a computer.
>
> I believe MAI BASIC-4 minicomputers did something similar.

Hey! I used one of those, until my HS burned down and three stories of  
classrooms buried it when they fell down...

The machine was donated to the school...

That was in 1980.

Lionel