I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...

In the dawn of the personal computer (PC) era, during the time of Japan's NEC PC-88 series and Fujitsu's FM-8. As I recall, 'using a PC' meant 'writing programs in BASIC.' The first thing you learned ...

Anyone whose first computing experience came in the form of an 8-bit home computer will tell you about booting straight into a BASIC interpreter. The machine invited you to program it, and no doubt ...

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When a tipster came to us with the line “One dollar BASIC computer”, it intrigued us enough to have a good look at [Stan6314]’s TinyBasRV computer. It’s a small PCB that forms a computer running BASIC ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen See more ...

The Goodwill Industries Basic Skills Computer Course for women is set to close registration this Tuesday.

When Emily Lockwood was at primary school, she would sit in a computer lab and learn how to type on a keyboard, make a presentation or save a file. But for her two children, there are no such classes.