Star Trek (1971 video game)
Star Trek is a text-based strategy video game based on the Star Trek television series (1966–69) and originally released in 1971. In the game, the player commands the USS Enterprise on a mission to hunt down and destroy an invading fleet of Klingon warships. The player travels through the 64 quadrants of the galaxy to attack enemy ships with phasers and photon torpedoes in turn-based battles and refuel at starbases. The goal is to eliminate all enemies within a random time limit.
ASR-33 teleprinter computer terminal
A TRS-80 port of the game running at the Living Computers: Museum + Labs
BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers. At the time, nearly all computers required writing custom software, which only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn.
The HP 2000 system was designed to run time-shared BASIC as its primary task.
"Train Basic every day!"—reads a poster (bottom center) in a Russian school (c. 1985–1986)
BASIC came to some video game systems, such as the Nintendo Famicom.
