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A fact from Benton Harbor BASIC appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 November 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Benton Harbor BASIC was written by Gordon Letwin, who surprised Heathkit management by showing up with long hair, high-top sneakers and a velvet coat?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Benton Harbor BASIC.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 02:10, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Benton Harbor BASIC was written by Gordon Letwin, who surprised Heathkit management by showing up with long hair, high-top sneakers and a velvet coat? Source: Zimmerman
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Layar Terkembang

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 18:52, 6 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Benton Harbor BASIC; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Long enough. New enough. Reliable citations throughout. All the sources are available online. (I must admit I didn't check for every command.) No copyright vios. Neutrally, dispassionately, written. The article could be better organized for improved readability. It took me a bit to follow each segment of many super long (though not technically run-on) sentences. Overall, much-needed starter reference article on an important subject. Those interested in the details can dive into the referenced manual. Great job. Hook is interesting, and cited. QPQ is done. GTG. Hybernator (talk) 21:57, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]