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"Back in April 1986, ANALOG Computing ran an article on page 113 called Paperweight by Curt Cox." If you don't want to subscribe to this newsletter to read abo
by egypturnash 7mo ago
"Back in April 1986, ANALOG Computing ran an article on page 113 called Paperweight by Curt Cox."
If you don't want to subscribe to this newsletter to read about this program, https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-41/page/n113/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-41/pag... is a link to the original article. And here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glIV5yulw8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glIV5yulw8
Finding letters regarding it in subsequent issues, is left as an exercise for someone else. :)
This article has now made me intensely envious of the Atari users who got actual assembly code source along with their long strings of hexadecimal type-ins, us c64 kids just got pages and pages of incomprehensible hex in everything except for Transactor.
- captn3m0 7mo agoI loved the author’s bio: > Curt Cox is a 26-year-old, die-hard Dr. Who fan and Atari fanatic. His family bought an Atari 800 cassette system in 1982. He reads Adams, Asimov and ANALOG Computing. His extensive journalistic and programming talents are often overlooked because of his unnaturally good looks.
- egypturnash 7mo agoI'm trying to decide if I think it's more likely he wrote this bio or his mom did.