The first DIY Soviet home computer Micro-80 and its successor Radio-86RK had an implementation of BASIC available (albeit not in ROM, but as an loadable binary). A page from which the link is taken does not mention any provenance of the BASIC interpreter, it merely says "Есть бейсик "Микро-80" (ц...

The asterisk itself has been around as a symbol since literally before the earliest writing systems. Among its many uses, in some user interfaces it denotes unsaved changes to a file or item. What was the first use of the asterisk to denote unsaved changes in a computer interface? What inspired ...

The IEEE 754 floating point arithmetic working group began in 1977 and was formally accepted in 1985. One of the original driving factors of the standard itself was Intel who wanted a standard to go along with their new floating point co-processor, the 8087. Because the standards process took an ...