- How Microsoft Won BASIC on the TrinityBy the end of 1977, the personal computer revolution was underway. The Commodore PET, Apple II, and TRS-80 Model I (the 1977 Trinity) were shipping, and each greeted users the same way: a blinking cursor and a BASIC prompt. But code behind that blinking cursor wasn’t the same. Each machine launched with a different BASIC,… Read more: How Microsoft Won BASIC on the Trinity
- A Forgotten Man of BASICIn researching the different BASICs on the original 1977 Trinity personal computers, I became curious about a BASIC interpreter programmer who seemed to have disappeared from the scene. We all know Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak who programmed BASIC interpreters, but there were lots of other BASICs and programmers of skill. Robert Uiterwyk (third from… Read more: A Forgotten Man of BASIC
- BASIC and the 1977 TrinityI have a new video out, where I take a deep dive into one of the most important turning points in personal computing history: the moment BASIC and the first easily usable personal computers came together to ignite the home computer revolution. Specifically, this episode explores the 1977 Trinity (the Commodore PET, the Apple II,… Read more: BASIC and the 1977 Trinity
- A Personal BeginningI started a YouTube channel, and my first video is a personal one. It’s about my first computer, and how it changed my life. It was 1978, and my Dad brought home an Ohio Scientific Instruments Challenger 2P. He hooked it up to a Sanyo CCTV monitor and a cassette tape player. The computer came… Read more: A Personal Beginning