On 05/27/2014 02:20 PM, Michael Black wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2014, philo wrote:

Recently I've been seeing notices celebrating the 50th anniversary of
BASIC.

I just realized than in July of this year I'll have had my license for
50 years.

Wow did that ever go fast.

1964 was a big year. The New York World's Fair (with the ham station at
the Pepsi pavillion, but I can't remember if that was the official
station that didn't get much attention or the second one that did). Ken
Kesey and the Pranksters driving the bus across the US to get to the
Fair. Time sharing came to Dartmouth university in 1964 as well as
BASIC. Freedom Summer. The Beatles on Ed Sullivan in February that year.



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In High School I recall our radio club sponsor talking about the good
old days of spark gap transmitters and now I am older than he was at the
time.

1964 was a good year.