[Coco] CoCoFEST - Dart Time Sharing System Contest

[Kip Koon]

Hi Chris!
Thank you for this idea.  I just posted my invitation to
http://reddit.com/r/RetroBattlestations!
If there are any other forums or mailing lists this Official Contest
Invitation should be posted to, please by all means let me know.  I want to
send this out to as many people as possible.  If anyone is a member of any
others lists that this would be quite appropriate for, which would be just
about every early/retro home computer ever built, please submit my original
message/email and/or let me know what the list is and where to go to access
it and I will be happy to do so.  Thanks again Chris for you suggestion.
This is so cool!  Happy BASIC Programming!  Take care my friends.  

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Chris Osborn
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 10:45 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCoFEST - Dart Time Sharing System Contest

You should post this to RetroBattlestations on reddit.
http://reddit.com/r/RetroBattlestations

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On Aug 23, 2014, at 2:18 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Basic Language Enthusiasts!
> 
> During the August Meeting of the Glenside Color Computer Club, I 
> suggested that the club present/demo the Dartmouth Time Sharing System 
> Simulator during the CoCoFEST Back To Basics Conference in 2015.  As 
> some of you probably know, two computer programmers who held PHDs in 
> Computer Science invented the Basic All-purpose Symbol Instruction 
> Code (BASIC) programming language at Dartmouth College on a GE-235 
> Mini-frame computer system and was first brought online one evening in 
> May 1964.  DTSS is a simulator written by one of those creators of 
> BASIC to simulate the actual environment the students at Dartmouth 
> College used to get their coursework calculations done without having 
> to study to become computer programmers - hence the name of the language.
> 
> I also suggested during the Glenside Color Computer Club meeting that 
> maybe we could hold a contest to see what kind of variety of BASIC 
> programs could be created using only the 15 statements and 10 
> functions provided by this very early version of BASIC which runs on 
> this DTSS Simulator.  Everyone at that meeting were very interested in 
> this idea, so I'm putting out an Official ALL-CALL to EVERYONE in the 
> Color Computer Community World Wide to participate in this contest 
> even if you cannot attend.  Maybe everyone's programs will be able to 
> be collected together in some form and shared at the CoCoFEST and be
available for download from someone's web site.
> 
> The simulator and all available information, manuals, etc. is 
> available on the DTSS site at the link below.  If you are interested 
> in participating in this contest or just want to see and experience 
> the environment the Creators of the Basic Language programmed on and 
> the students at Dartmouth College had to use, go download this 
> simulator from the following web page.  Also at the bottom of the 
> page, some of the ACTUAL Assembly Language Source Code that ran on the
GE-235 computer for the BASIC Compiler has been preserved!
> Much of the mnemonics for the GE-235 computer look VERY SIMILAR to 
> 6809 Mnemonics!  It was so cool to be able to see this source code for 
> what may very well be one of the most popular programming languages ever
created!
> 
> Link to the DTSS Simulator Web Page.  
> http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/#download
> 
> These are the links for the software itself.  DTSS Simulator software 
> for [Windows] <http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/DTSS-Win.zip>  and 
> [Macintosh] <http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/DTSS-Mac.sit> .
> 
> It is my hope that everyone who enjoys our beloved Cocos will at least 
> consider this proposal and at some level participate in it.  This 
> could turn out to be quite an interesting experience for us all!  Take
care my friends.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kip Koon
> 
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> 
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> 
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