Scans from 80s British computer magazines
Shardcore sez, "I went to visit my mother recently, and there, stashed in the garage was a motherlode of eighties computer magazines [from that golden era post ZX81, pre-puberty, when I actually bought such things.]
There's a lot of great stuff in there, so I'm posting it piecemeal on this new blog. only a few bits up at the moment, plenty more to come."
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(Thanks, Shardcore!)
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...Ah yes, back in the days when one issue of Computer Shopper meant that at least four trees died to produce it, and your birdcage could be freshly lined twice daily for at least three months. Of course, it was worth reading back then. Nowadays its even worse than PC Rag, and thinner to boot. In the 80's, you could kill small children with a rolled-up issue of the Shopper, but the current page count would chip and shatter if you tried to fan the air with it, and makes Charmin look like Brawny.
Oh happy days! My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 1000, available in Canada in the early 80s. The ZX81 chipset, 2K RAM, and a 16K removable RAM pack! A Radio Shack cassette recorder for data access (with only the output connected, else it wouldn't read the signal properly), and a stack of magazines from the library to spend hours typing in code to play Pong, some bizarre card game, and a british-based racing game! Glorious! *sniff*
"Popular Computing Weekly". Yes WEEKLY. Those were the days.
"Database TV Game"
Rows, Columns, Macros, Excitement!
That game sucked - no SQL.