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The first edition of MSX Computer Magazine from 1985 has them, and I doubt they were the first or invented it: https://www.msxcomputermagazine.nl/archief/bladen
by arp242 2y ago
The first edition of MSX Computer Magazine from 1985 has them, and I doubt they were the first or invented it: https://www.msxcomputermagazine.nl/archief/bladen/msx_computer_magazine_01.pdf#page=19 https://www.msxcomputermagazine.nl/archief/bladen/msx_comput...
Perhaps it was less common in other countries? Things were a lot less global back then and things operated more on a local level.
- pimlottc 2y agoWe mostly had Family Computing magazine. I looked up an issue from 1985 with one of my favorite type-by-hand games, Hit or Miss [0], and no sight of a helpful checksum. To be honest, the idea of it would have blown my mind back then; the idea that your BASIC code is just a text file that can be processed by other programs is something that would never have occurred to me. https://archive.org/details/FamilyComputingIssue041983Dec/Family_Computing_Issue_23_1985_Jul/page/n53/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/FamilyComputingIssue041983Dec/Fa...