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GCFLearnFree.org was created in July 2000 by Goodwill Community Foundation Inc president Dennis McLain as an online training program with both English and Spanish language lessons. [2] The program was funded through revenue generated from the value of donated items to Goodwill Community Foundation (GCF).
The MC-10 includes a BASIC interpreter in ROM and uses regular audio cassettes for bulk storage. Text and graphics are displayed on a television set via a built-in RF modulator . Less common for machines in its class is the integrated RS-232 serial port , which allows the MC-10 to use line printers and modems without additional hardware.
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
BASICs with Bitwise Ops use -1 as true and the AND and OR operators perform a bitwise operation on the arguments.. FOR/NEXT skip means that body of the loop is skipped if the initial value of the loop times the sign of the step exceeds the final value times the sign of the step (such as 2 TO 1 STEP 1 or 1 TO 2 STEP -1).
MBASIC is available for CP/M-80 and ISIS-II.Also available for TEKDOS.. MBASIC is a stripped-down BASIC-80 with only hardware-neutral functions. However, due to the popularity of CP/M, the great majority of Z80 machines ran MBASIC, rather than a version customized for specific hardware (TRS-80 BASIC was one of the few exceptions).
Terminal for a MAI Basic/Four minicomputer. Basic/Four is a variety of Business Basic which originally ran on computers of the same name introduced in 1971. The company that produced the system, Management Assistance, Inc., was later known as Basic/Four Corporation, MAI Basic Four, Inc., and MAI Basic Four Information Systems.
Intel had announced the 8080 chip, and compared to the 4004 to which IMS Associates had been first introduced, it looked like a "real computer". Full-scale development of the IMSAI 8080 was put into action using the existing Altair 8800's S-100 bus , and by October 1975 an ad was placed in Popular Electronics , receiving positive reactions.
The paper computer's method of operation is nominally based on a register machine by Elmar Cohors-Fresenborg, [2] [7] but follows more the approach of John Cedric Shepherdson and Howard E. Sturgis in their Shepherdson–Sturgis register machine model. [8] A derived version of the paper computer is used as a "Know-How Computer" in Namibian ...