I enjoy reading old copies of PC Magazine. In one indues of the magazine from January 1987[1], there's a great, in depth overview of QuickBasic 2 starting on p

I enjoy reading old copies of PC Magazine. In one indues of the magazine from January 1987[1], there's a great, in depth overview of QuickBasic 2 starting on page 285. It includes lots of examples and sample code. After this article, there's one about writing a fairly complex directory and file management utility - and it includes a complete listing of the asm code needed to write the program. The code is very well documented and is a real pleasure to read. I wonder if modern audiences would even be receptive to articles like these. I'm sure some would, but I think many people have a tl;dr attitude and would abandon ship early on. As a side note, I find old computer magazines to be great for coming up with fun side-project ideas. This same issue of PC Mag has lots of ads for things like database and spreadsheet applications that use a natural language interface. One could probably combine ideas like these with modern speech recognition and AI to come up with some fun and interesting projects and products. [1]https://ia601900.us.archive.org/33/items/PC-Mag-1987-01-13/PC-Mag-1987-01-13.pdf https://ia601900.us.archive.org/33/items/PC-Mag-1987-01-13/P...