Dartmouth BASIC manuals
Carlo Zanziba
I'm an Italian engineer. Do you know where I can find in pdf/ps form the
manuals of Dartmouth BASIC from version III to version VI? And
especially the 1969 version V one?
I already have the version II manual (Oct. 1964), available at
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf.
Thanks in advance.
C.Z.
Carlo Zanziba
Carlo Zanziba
after a long and satisfactory research in the Bitsavers archive, and I
want to share this info with anyone interested.
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The manual for version III is here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ge/MarkI_Timesharing/IPC-202026_BASIC_Sep66.pdf
It is a manual with the very same aspect and shape of the 1964 version,
but it was published by GE (the manufacturer of the mainframe) with a
wonderful red cover; it has the same examples and many more, due to the
fact that the MAT statements are exposed in detail, and many revisions
since version II. See also
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ge/MarkI_Timesharing/CPB-1182C_Time-Sharing_SysMan_Sep66.pdf
(a brief explanation of the GE mainframe operating system) and
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ge/MarkI_Timesharing/203026_IntroToBASIC_Jun68.pdf
a small manual for a quick start in BASIC programming, both by GE and of
the same era.
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The manual for version V is here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS10_softwareNotebooks/vol06/DEC-10-LBLMA-A-D_BASIC.pdf
It is a mere continuation of the speech of manuals II and III, though
issued by Digital Equipment, the manufacturer of the DEC10 systems; same
examples, same structure; no doubt about the fact it's a version V: the
FILES and FILE statements are both present, and no reference about
SUB/SUB END/CALL is present (version VI abolished statements FILES). It
is probably the manual adopted also by the Pittsburgh University at the
times of writing of Byron S. Gottfried "Programming with BASIC" (1st
ed.), who probably wrote all the examples in the book on such a machine
(he used a DEC-10 computer, in fact).
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Another quasi-complaint version V is here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/oregonState/os3/CCM-71-08_BASIC_May72.pdf
It was published by the Oregon State University Computer Center in 1972,
and is very close to the previous, with the difference that no
FILE/FILES statements are present, but a more modern OPEN/CLOSE couple,
and some minor differences.
I hope my research may satisfy other BASIC aficionados; I'm very happy
for finding these documents, all freely downloadable.
Thanks, Bitsavers!
C.Z.
Carlo Zanziba
Karl E. Peterson
> I hope my research may satisfy other BASIC aficionados; I'm very happy
> for finding these documents, all freely downloadable.
Nice finds!!! Thanks... :-)
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Benjamin L. Russell
PC-8001mkII in c. 1982, so you could count me in as a BASIC
aficionado, too.
If you happen to find a copy of version I, I'd appreciate information
on it as well.
Thank you very much for your painstaking research!
-- Benjamin L. Russell
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Benjamin L. Russell
<DekuDe...@Yahoo.com> wrote:
>Thanks, Carlo; I myself first started off with N80-BASIC on an NEC
>PC-8001mkII in c. 1982, so you could count me in as a BASIC
>aficionado, too.
Actually, I should have written "NEC PC-8001 mkII" (with a space
between "PC-8001" and "mkII," since that was the official name) [1]
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-8000_Series). (A photograph of
the machine is available at [2] "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ NEC PC
8001 MK 2" (see
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=396).)
Incidentally, if anybody has any manuals (Japanese-language manuals
are also acceptable, since I can also read Japanese) for N-BASIC, N-80
BASIC, or N-98 BASIC (I already have a Japanese-language N-88 BASIC
manual [3]), I would be interested in those as well.
Any cooperation would be greatly appreciated.
-- Benjamin L. Russell
[1] "PC-8000 Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia. 9 Sep. 2008. 31 July 2009.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-8000_Series>.
[2] "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ NEC PC 8001 MK 2." "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM
: The Museum." "OLD-COMPUTERS.COM." 31 July 2009.
<http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=396>.
[3] "BASICリファレンスマニュアル." NEC. Publication date unavailable.
31 July 2009.
<http://xre0yq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pclpg46weKMOH1qkv9sOjFCQi3Enk0cnKWvzuMnIaszvrxligT_z5l4_uXDlIcAa7it-g_eNgoCY9pWH86UVc_
g/N88BASIC_Manual.pdf?download>.
Tom Lake
"Benjamin L. Russell" <DekuDe...@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:40n47551orcdqvc5l...@4ax.com...
> Incidentally, if anybody has any manuals (Japanese-language manuals
> are also acceptable, since I can also read Japanese) for N-BASIC, N-80
> BASIC, or N-98 BASIC (I already have a Japanese-language N-88 BASIC
> manual [3]), I would be interested in those as well.
You could try here. At least the author of Decimal BASIC might be able to
help.
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008683/index.htm
Tom Lake
Tom Lake
"Benjamin L. Russell" <DekuDe...@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
> Thanks, Carlo; I myself first started off with N80-BASIC on an NEC
> PC-8001mkII in c. 1982, so you could count me in as a BASIC
> aficionado, too.
>
> If you happen to find a copy of version I, I'd appreciate information
> on it as well.
Version I is at
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf
Tom Lake
Al Kossow
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm an Italian engineer. Do you know where I can find in pdf/ps form the
> manuals of Dartmouth BASIC from version III to version VI?
The 4th ed from 1968 is now on line at bitsavers