Harry McCrackenTom Kurtz, who co-invented BASIC—probably the piece of software that has meant the most to me—has died at age 96. When it turned 50 ten years ago, I wrote a VERY long article about why it was so important, and I’m very grateful that he helped with it. RIP. https://time.com/69316/basic/
Abram Kedge has moved@harrymccracken I used to love reading through the BASIC manual for any device I could get my hands on, looking for new machine-specific commands to try out.
One Christmas my dad borrowed a programmable Fluke logic analyser from work so that he could learn how to use it. I stayed up most of the night, and the next day showed off a game where you could insert 45° mirrors to make bouncing balls collide and annihilate each other. Fun times.