Dr. Daves Diversions | From the first BASIC to Casio fx-4000P calculator! @DrDavesDiversions | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In this video, we go back to BASICs. First, we go back to the birth of BASIC - the 1960s - and see how Dartmouth College students programmed in BASIC on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS). Next, we'll discover a bug in one of those students' programs, then fix and test it using the Commodore 64. Ultimately, we'll jump to the mid-1980s - when I started college - and pit C64 BASIC against the Casio fx-4000P programmable scientific calculator's BASIC-like dialect by solving the same quintic equation that challenged those mathematics students at Dartmouth in the 1960s.
00:00 intro
02:00 the birth of BASIC and the DTSS
04:41 running and fixing a 1960s-era BASIC program on the C64
07:29 using Wolfram|Alpha to find the verify the solution (look here if the math involved is unfamiliar to you)
08:49 porting the program to the Casio fx-4000P
18:23 running the program head to head - C64 vs. fx-4000P
19:42 parting thoughts
Pocket Computers from the 1980s (The 8-Bit Guy)
youtube.com/watch?v=d3NIe1jTZMc
Birth of BASIC (~40 mins, Dartmouth)
youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw
BASIC at 50 (4 mins, Dartmouth)
youtube.com/watch?v=gxo9LVIgOiI
Casio fx-4000p (rskey.org)
rskey.org/fx4000p
rskey.org/ec4020 (Radio Shack-branded version)
Casio fx-5200p (rskey.org)
rskey.org/fx5200p (a similar vintage Casio calculator with BASIC, instead)
Casio fx-790p (rskey.org)
rskey.org/fx790p (a similar vintage Casio pocket computer with BASIC)
CASIO fx-4000P scientific calculator from 1986 (teardown, HPmuseum.org)
hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-5278.html
fx-4000p Owner's Manual
casio.ledudu.com/images/pockets/casio/manuels/fx4000p.pdf
fx-7000g Owner's Manual, Chapter 4: Program Computations
web.archive.org/web/20031216054750/silrun.de/casio/fx7000/manual/Chapter4.pdf
Casio fx-7000G - The World's First Graphing Calculator (Calculator Culture)
youtube.com/watch?v=NQsP0r4X60E
The Dartmouth Time-sharing Computing System Final Report April 1967 (ed.gov)
YOUN CAN FIND THE "QUINT" MATH PROBLEM ON PAGE 62 OF THIS PDF.
files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED024602.pdf
Quintic Equation
mathworld.wolfram.com/QuinticEquation.html
In this video, we go back to BASICs. First, we go back to the birth of BASIC - the 1960s - and see how Dartmouth College students programmed in BASIC on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS). Next, we'll discover a bug in one of those students' programs, then fix and test it using the Commodore 64. Ultimately, we'll jump to the mid-1980s - when I started college - and pit C64 BASIC against the Casio fx-4000P programmable scientific calculator's BASIC-like dialect by solving the same quintic equation that challenged those mathematics students at Dartmouth in the 1960s.
00:00 intro
02:00 the birth of BASIC and the DTSS
04:41 running and fixing a 1960s-era BASIC program on the C64
07:29 using Wolfram|Alpha to find the verify the solution (look here if the math involved is unfamiliar to you)
08:49 porting the program to the Casio fx-4000P
18:23 running the program head to head - C64 vs. fx-4000P
19:42 parting thoughts
Pocket Computers from the 1980s (The 8-Bit Guy)
youtube.com/watch?v=d3NIe1jTZMc
Birth of BASIC (~40 mins, Dartmouth)
youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw
BASIC at 50 (4 mins, Dartmouth)
youtube.com/watch?v=gxo9LVIgOiI
Casio fx-4000p (rskey.org)
rskey.org/fx4000p
rskey.org/ec4020 (Radio Shack-branded version)
Casio fx-5200p (rskey.org)
rskey.org/fx5200p (a similar vintage Casio calculator with BASIC, instead)
Casio fx-790p (rskey.org)
rskey.org/fx790p (a similar vintage Casio pocket computer with BASIC)
CASIO fx-4000P scientific calculator from 1986 (teardown, HPmuseum.org)
hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-5278.html
fx-4000p Owner's Manual
casio.ledudu.com/images/pockets/casio/manuels/fx4000p.pdf
fx-7000g Owner's Manual, Chapter 4: Program Computations
web.archive.org/web/20031216054750/silrun.de/casio/fx7000/manual/Chapter4.pdf
Casio fx-7000G - The World's First Graphing Calculator (Calculator Culture)
youtube.com/watch?v=NQsP0r4X60E
The Dartmouth Time-sharing Computing System Final Report April 1967 (ed.gov)
YOUN CAN FIND THE "QUINT" MATH PROBLEM ON PAGE 62 OF THIS PDF.
files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED024602.pdf
Quintic Equation
mathworld.wolfram.com/QuinticEquation.html
