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 or Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code is a high-level programming language designed to provide easy access to computer facilities. Its developers John George Kemeny, the Dartmouth ...

At 4 AM on May 1, 1964, a Dartmouth mathematician and a student programmer simultaneously typed "RUN" on neighbouring terminals and BASIC was born. New Delhi: 50 years ago, BASIC - the computer ...

On Tuesday, we published my piece celebrating the 50th anniversary of BASIC, the programming language — created by John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz at Dartmouth College — that played an enormous role ...