BartC wrote:
Our system must have been more advanced then, or designed for training. We used a time-sharing 'dec-system 10' and it was usually accessed via interactive terminals, either teletypes or the odd VDU.
According to Wikipedia the first interactive version of Dartmouth BASIC appeared in 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC Also, the *very* earliest computer systems were all interactive -- you sat in front of a panel flipping switches and reading lights! -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list