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eric F.
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GE time-share BASIC was an offshoot of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System developed by Kurtz and Kemeny starting in the early 60's. I scanned this reference manual, which was part of a collection I bought in 2019.
10/15/2022, 12:32:18 PM
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linkeric F.
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The development of the Dartmouth system and eventual growth into the Kiewit Network is part of a fascinating history in Joy Lisi Rankin's A People's History of Computing in the United States.
10/15/2022, 12:40:44 PM
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linkeric F.
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The Philadelphia School District had an active time-share system, probably using the GE service, in the mid-1970's. This is a pic of a friend reading an archived program written in middle school (ca. 1975) on the Olivetti Te-318 tape reader. https://twitter.com/ef1j95/status/1564403878648598528?s=20&t=3idIVMOq3x707JQipHnbnQ
10/15/2022, 12:47:19 PM
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linkeric F.
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I'm told it was actually HP 2000 / Access BASIC!
10/15/2022, 6:35:41 PM
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linkeric F.
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Fascinating: "The precursor of General Electric Information Services began as a business unit within General Electric formed to sell excess computer time on the computers used to give customer demos." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Time_Sharing_System Basically (no pun) this comes about because...
10/16/2022, 7:53:22 PM
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linkeric F.
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Kemeny and Kurtz pick the two-computer GE-225 and Datanet-30 as their time-sharing solution. (Rankin, p. 24-25)
10/16/2022, 7:53:23 PM
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linkeric F.
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Remember that Scholastic book order feeling? ILL is a lot like it. Maybe better.
10/26/2022, 8:43:16 AM
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