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Darthmouth BASIC used teletype terminals, not punched card input. The article has a picture, and comments "Dartmouth did better. At any time, when the program w
by eesmith 3y ago
Darthmouth BASIC used teletype terminals, not punched card input. The article has a picture, and comments "Dartmouth did better. At any time, when the program was in memory, you could use SAVE to save it from being forgotten when you finish working with the computer, and RUN to compile and execute it right away."
- greenbit 3y agoAs may be, just going on observation that when I got to college, several of the profs still had punch decks lying around the offices. Granted that said offices were not more than 3 minutes walk from the computing center where the mainframe lived. Clearly anyone miles from campus, or anyone seeking any kind of interactive session, would want a tty. But evidently if you wanted to run your program more than once, and didn't want to incur the rental charge for online "DASD" storage, batch-job card decks had been an option. I presume that did not exclude BASIC programs. Also, I suppose "era in which BASIC first evolved" would have better been stated as "part of the era in which BASIC first flourished"