Unlike Microsoft BASIC, True BASIC was also designed to be the same language, no matter what computer you ran it on. “In 1983 or so, the microcomputer versions of BASIC were all different ...

BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964.

BASIC revolutionized computing by making computers feel less institutional, and more like a tool the average human could use. Harry McCracken at TIME explains this shift far better than I ever ...

50 Years Of BASIC The programming language, developed five decades ago, didn't require code to be entered on punch cards. It also allowed computer novices to begin programming without a lot of ...

Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the library. We found 101 Games in BASIC, ...

50 years ago today, the BASIC computer language was born as two math professors from Dartmouth College used it to help run the school's computer system for the first time.

Thomas E. Kurtz with an early computer at Dartmouth in the early 1960s. He worked to make computers more accessible to all students, not just those in technical fields — a novel idea at the time.

Thomas E. Kurtz, co-pioneer of the BASIC programming language, dies at 96. In the 1960s, he and John Kemeny developed BASIC and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, transforming computer access and ...

Although computer programming has evolved in the years since Dr. Kurtz and Kemeny introduced their language, BASIC is “still very much alive” today, said Dag Spicer, senior curator at the ...