It was the September 1983 issue of COMPUTE! that opened the gates to my life as a programmer. They had programs that did interesting things but that also came w

It was the September 1983 issue of COMPUTE! that opened the gates to my life as a programmer. They had programs that did interesting things but that also came with clear explanations. A while later they had a type-in word processor named SpeedScript that I used for years in the early part of my technical writing career.