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If you're interested in old computer programming, Usborne recently released downloadable PDFs of their childrens' computing books: https://www.theguardian.com/

by alblue 10y ago

If you're interested in old computer programming, Usborne recently released downloadable PDFs of their childrens' computing books: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/10/programming-usborne-1980s-coding-books https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/10/programmi... In addition, I wrote an article for Commodore Disk User on interrupt requests some 25 years ago and was pleasantly surprised to see that the magazines are available on the Internet Archive: http://alblue.bandlem.com/2012/04/first-published-article.html http://alblue.bandlem.com/2012/04/first-published-article.ht... http://archive.org/details/commodore-diskuser http://archive.org/details/commodore-diskuser

coroxout 10y ago
I grew up with these books! And 80s computer magazines too (UK Spectrum mags in my case though, but also C&VG). Thanks for the links. I loved to get Usborne books as presents or go to the library every week to see if they had any new ones. Still have a few, including one which I couldn't see on the website. Maybe I'll check and email them about it. I was at the computer museum in Swindon (UK) last week. It's a small museum but they have among other things a couple of Sinclair machines and a C64 set up for people to play with (type in BASIC or load games from tape/disk/cartridge). I attempted to type in a simple program to draw a coloured pattern onscreen from one of the books provided, but I'd forgotten how to type some of the Spectrum's more obscure shift-keyword combinations and after 30 years of progressively nicer IDEs the 48k BASIC editing interface was quite frustrating. Still, good for nostalgia. Would recommend to micro nostalgists if you're in the area, although it's possible to look at everything they've got within an hour so probably not worth driving much more than that for. (I suppose I could donate my Usborne books and magazines - if I could bear to part with them...)

by alblue 10y ago

coroxout 10y ago

I grew up with these books! And 80s computer magazines too (UK Spectrum mags in my case though, but also C&VG). Thanks for the links. I loved to get Usborne books as presents or go to the library every week to see if they had any new ones. Still have a few, including one which I couldn't see on the website. Maybe I'll check and email them about it. I was at the computer museum in Swindon (UK) last week. It's a small museum but they have among other things a couple of Sinclair machines and a C64 set up for people to play with (type in BASIC or load games from tape/disk/cartridge). I attempted to type in a simple program to draw a coloured pattern onscreen from one of the books provided, but I'd forgotten how to type some of the Spectrum's more obscure shift-keyword combinations and after 30 years of progressively nicer IDEs the 48k BASIC editing interface was quite frustrating. Still, good for nostalgia. Would recommend to micro nostalgists if you're in the area, although it's possible to look at everything they've got within an hour so probably not worth driving much more than that for. (I suppose I could donate my Usborne books and magazines - if I could bear to part with them...)