[GreenKeys] Fw: Re: Teletype and electronics........

[Chris Elmquist]

On Thursday (04/11/2013 at 01:03PM -0400), Teletypeparts wrote:
> 
> I worked on some of those 33's at Dartmouth College.  It was called the Kiewit Computer System.  I got in on the last days of it.  My supply of parts came from Kiewit in exchange for 5 service calls.  Most of the parts were levers and stuff you would never use, but initially there were a lot of good parts as well.  
> 
> Its seems like one of the professors there had something to do with early computers or ASCII or something like that but darned if I can remember.  The Kiewit machines had acoustic couplers in them for dialing into the mainframe with a standard phone. 

That might have been BASIC,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC

"The original Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George
Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire,
USA to provide computer access to non-science students. At the time,
nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was
something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do. The language
and its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s
and 1980s, when it was typically a standard feature, and often part of
the firmware of the machine. The presence of an easy-to-learn language
such as BASIC on these early personal computers allowed small business
owners to develop their own custom application software, leading to
widespread use of these computers in businesses that previously did not
have access to computing technology."

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Chris Elmquist