That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ...

(An early manual stated the maximum program length as “about two ... Images The PET offered a variant of Microsoft BASIC from the start. Apple and Radio Shack started out with rudimentary ...

Interestingly, Jobs indicated a preference for the 6501 or 6502 microprocessor due to the presence of BASIC ... saying that Apple-1 was “a rare deal,” as the board and the manual were quoted ...