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About This Board Purposes, management, and user instructions |
3 | 3 | Mon Jun 02, 2003 7:49 pm DC-Admin |
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Sputnik & Math & Science How math and science education got the money |
3 | 8 | Wed Apr 21, 2004 5:00 pm Sputnik era |
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Computer Experience Digits before Dartmouth |
1 | 3 | Tue Apr 20, 2004 4:29 pm Tom Martin |
| The Dartmouth Scene | ||||
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Why Dartmouth? Of all the gin joints . . . |
3 | 5 | Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:55 pm sidclark1 |
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What it Was Really Like |
8 | 18 | Sat May 10, 2008 3:09 pm sidclark1 |
| The LGP-30 Days | ||||
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First Experiments - 1959 What were some of the things Dartmouth students did on the LGP-30 in the summer of 1959. |
1 | 1 | Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:13 pm Tom Kurtz |
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Algol-30 Four Dartmouth students developed a subset of Algol-60, which we called "Algol-30". |
1 | 1 | Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:37 pm Tom Kurtz |
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Other Applications Many students did interesting things on the LGP-30. |
1 | 2 | Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:36 pm Tom Martin |
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SCALP This Self-Contained Algol Processor led naturally to time-sharing and BASIC. |
2 | 3 | Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:17 pm Bill Marsh |
| The Decision to do Time-Sharing | ||||
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The Decision John McCarthy (MIT) got the ball rolling around 1961 when he urged: "You guys ought to do time-sharing." |
1 | 1 | Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:06 pm Tom Kurtz |
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Choosing a Vendor How Dartmouth chose GE is an interesting story. |
1 | 1 | Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:24 pm Tom Kurtz |
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Initial Design Tony Knapp created MESS, the original design paper. |
1 | 1 | Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:28 pm Tom Kurtz |
| Creating the TSS Software | ||||
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The Design The two-machine model seemed natural for Dartmouth; it turned out to be brilliant. |
1 | 1 | Mon Jul 14, 2003 10:27 am Tom Kurtz |
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The Hardware Arrives The real work began when the hardware arrived in February, 1964. |
1 | 1 | Mon Jul 14, 2003 10:33 am Tom Kurtz |
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Off And Running BASIC was "born" at 4AM on May 1, 1964. The rest is history. |
3 | 3 | Thu May 04, 2006 12:22 pm Robert Schuldenfrei |
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