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Scroll around for some highlights. What did USR used to sell as well as modems? 300 baud modems mind you, not fancy v.Everything Couriers yet. Ad for full hei
by oldcynic 9y ago
Scroll around for some highlights.
What did USR used to sell as well as modems? 300 baud modems mind you, not fancy v.Everything Couriers yet.
Ad for full height floppy drives and 14" hard drives.
Apple III review. X10 home automation project with circuit diagrams. Now, if only X10 had been followed up with a standard into the TCP/IP years... ;)
BASIC Listings at the back. With explanations of the listings.
I miss Byte, oh and Personal Computer World (UK), Amiga Transactor and Dr Dobbs. ...and the terrible ads!
Oh well, feeling old with my morning coffee.
- pjmlp 9y agoC being just an occasional reference, with the actual highlights being Assembly, BASIC, FORTH, Fortran and Lisp.
- rbanffy 9y agoAnd C was considered a high-level programming language...
- TomMasz 9y agoRemember the "Don Gall" ads? Holy crap, were they awful!
- le-mark 9y agoI used to read Byte as a lad. I never had money or knowledge to really do anything since I was alas, just a lad. I had to wait several years to acquire a C-64. From the present article, it occurs to me there was a special kind of hell, if one did have money and time in that era, to fiddle, endlessly, with peripheals and software, never really doing anything. Dr Pournelled wrote some great books (with Niven) so he at least did get some things done despite the distractions.