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"1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964." gave me a big smile...

• edanm 15y ago
  I didn't get that one, actually. Am I just being dumb or is there a backstory?
  • riffraff 15y ago
    reference to GOTO in basic
  • deleted 15y ago
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  • buff-a 15y ago
    10 PRINT "<rude message here>" 20 GOTO 10 They used to sell computers in stores that you could walk up to and program. BASIC was the command prompt for some computers. The above was the inevitable result.
    • kstenerud 15y ago
      My favorite trick was to poke values into the sound registers, THEN goto!
      • mkup 15y ago
        yeah, 10 BEEP 20 GOTO 10
        • kstenerud 15y ago
          Actually I was thinking more along the lines of programming the SID to output a sawtooth waveform and modulate it for extra annoyance, but whatever floats your boat.
  • shasta 15y ago
    It's just a humorous way of saying they were stuck in the past (probably because they didn't integrate other language advances into basic).