BASIC
date: label: date made
content: 1965
name: label: maker
content: Dartmouth
notes: label: Description
content: In the early 1960s, faculty and students at Dartmouth College, with funding from the National Science Foundation, began to develop a time-sharring system which would allow all students at Dartmouth to have access to minicomputers there (a DATANET-30 used for interface and scheduling, and a GE-225 to actually run programs). The specially written compiler was known as BASIC, and would later be revised and adopted for many eary microcomputers. This manual, issued by the Dartmouth Computation Center in January of 1965, is an introduction to BASIC. The spiral-bound document has a light green cover.
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content: In the fall of 1965, General Electric placed one or two experimental time-sharing teletypes at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Robert I. Winner, the donor of this manual, reported that he purchased it at the Union College bookstore for a quarter or possibly fifty cents. He consulted it writing his first high-level computer programs. Winner would go on to a career in computer science - when he donated the volume in 1993 he was Principal Scientist at the short-lived Center for High Performance Computing of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. This organization was in Marlborough, Massachsetts.
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content: Acquisition file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Hampshire, Hanover
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Robert Winner
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.3126.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.3126.01
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content: 1993.3126
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm