Software, BASIC for the Altair on Paper Tape
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
notes: label: Description
content: In the mid-1960s, Dartmouth College professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed a computer language intended to be easy to learn and use. They called it BASIC -- Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Students learned BASIC on a teletype terminal that communicated with a central computer. Several terminals were linked to one computer as part of a system called timesharing. Students on remote terminals could use the computer without seeing it--or even knowing what kind of computer it was. This particular BASIC tape was used with a MITS Altair 8800, a later microcomputer.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Forrest M. Mims, III
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0463.24
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0463.24
label: accession number
content: 1986.0463
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Software
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 10 cm x 4.2 cm; in x 3 15/16 in x 1 5/8 in