Comments on: What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive? – IEEE Spectrum https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/11/05/what-does-it-take-to-keep-a-classic-mainframe-alive-ieee-spectrum/ All about electronics and circuit design Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/11/05/what-does-it-take-to-keep-a-classic-mainframe-alive-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1611688 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:35:51 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=180285#comment-1611688 Tech-Bro Culture Was Written in the Code
https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/dartmouth-basic-computer-programmers-tech-bros.html

How computing pioneers at Dartmouth in the 1960s gave rise to the macho tech culture we see today.

In the 1960s, Dartmouth College became ground zero for the coming explosion in American computing after college mathematics professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed a new programming language that was relatively easy to learn: Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC.

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