Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...

コンピュータが非常に高価で大型であったため研究所や企業など一部の限られた場所でのみ使われていた1970年代半ばに、個人でも所有できるほど安くて、小さいコンピュータ「Altair 8800」が発売されて、爆発的な人気を呼び、PC(パーソナルコンピュータ)時代 ...

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games. The ...

1984年（昭和59年）6月21日は、ファミリーコンピュータ用の周辺機器“ファミリーベーシック”が発売された日。本日で40周年の節目を迎えた。 ファミリーベーシックは、ファミコンでプログラミング言語のBASICが使えるようになる周辺機器。通常より少し ...