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

[Teletypeparts]

Chris,

Thanks, I think you have helped my memory except of course I dont remember which guy it was.  

73,

Wayne



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com>
To: Teletypeparts <teletypeparts at aol.com>
Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 2:26 pm
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Fw: Re: Teletype and electronics........


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 
omputer System.  I got in on the last days of it.  My supply of parts came from 
iewit in exchange for 5 service calls.  Most of the parts were levers and stuff 
ou 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 
omputers or ASCII or something like that but darned if I can remember.  The 
iewit machines had acoustic couplers in them for dialing into the mainframe 
ith 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
emeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire,
SA to provide computer access to non-science students. At the time,
early all use of computers required writing custom software, which was
omething only scientists and mathematicians tended to do. The language
nd its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s
nd 1980s, when it was typically a standard feature, and often part of
he firmware of the machine. The presence of an easy-to-learn language
uch as BASIC on these early personal computers allowed small business
wners to develop their own custom application software, leading to
idespread use of these computers in businesses that previously did not
ave access to computing technology."
-- 
hris Elmquist

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