BASIC
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== Circulating Programs in Print == | == Circulating Programs in Print == | ||
| − | BASIC programs, from the beginning, circulated as ink on paper. There was no Web or even Internet to facilitate the digital exchange of programs. It is interesting to consider the specific forms of printed matter that were used to communicate BASIC programs. In looking at the specifics of how BASIC was disseminated and traveled between and among different user communities, interesting signs are seen of the practices BASIC users developed, the habits they fell into, the culture that developed among them, and finally the trends they set and that now inflect the history of computing in more and less significant ways. | + | BASIC programs, from the beginning, circulated as ink on paper. There was no Web or even Internet to facilitate the digital exchange of programs. Some insights can be gained by considering the specific forms of printed matter that were used to communicate BASIC programs. In looking at the specifics of how BASIC was disseminated and traveled between and among different user communities, interesting signs are seen of the practices BASIC users developed, the habits they fell into, the culture that developed among them, and finally the trends they set that continue to inflect the history of computing. |
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| − | [find out more about BASIC’s transmission in print before the mid-1970s] | ||
From the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, the transmission of BASIC in print took several paths: | From the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, the transmission of BASIC in print took several paths: | ||
