Jul. 7th, 2013

krpalmer: (apple)
Working my way through the scanned copies of various old computer magazines found in different corners online, I've made it to Compute. It seems to not just have been popular at the time but also remembered nowadays, although it just might have been that some period comments in an opinionated "semi-pro" magazine made me slow to get to it. In any case, as I read through the magazine's evolution from a Commodore PET journal that had just added a bit of coverage for the Atari computers, the Apple II, and assorted other systems using the 6502 microprocessor to a more general-level publication geared for the home user (it even had versions of its type-in programs for the Radio Shack Color Computer for a while, although they did seem to tend towards the lowest resolution graphics mode) with an awareness it survived long enough to get to a point of covering nothing but Microsoft Windows 3.1, I took note of the machine language word processor Speedscript it had developed for the Commodore 64 and VIC 20 and then ported to the Atari computers and Apple II. With all my emulator programs, I have tried entering shorter type-in programs promised to draw patterns on the screen or something similar (even if some of them are longer than just one line), but something about experiencing what it would have been to be a real cheapskate back then and type in a full application (even if it was promised to be just "5.5 K" in length, the size of a lengthy post perhaps) did begin to get my attention.
ExpandIllustrated progress )

July 2025

S M T W T F S
   12345
6 789101112
131415 16171819
2021 2223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

Expand All Cut TagsCollapse All Cut Tags
Page generated Jul. 26th, 2025 05:32 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios