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TL;DR: It's "Creative Computing Magazine (September 1982) Volume 08 Number 09" PDF for those looking to read it: https://ia601602.us.archive.org/6/items/creati
by Botnet 13y ago
TL;DR: It's "Creative Computing Magazine (September 1982) Volume 08 Number 09"
PDF for those looking to read it:
https://ia601602.us.archive.org/6/items/creativecomputing-1982-09/Creative_Computing_v08_n09_1982_September.pdf https://ia601602.us.archive.org/6/items/creativecomputing-19...
- lttlrck 13y agoThat really doesn't do the article justice.
- delinka 13y agoPretty sure tl;dr is not intended to do such
- xhrpost 13y agoInteresting seeing page 7 an add by Microsoft selling a compiler for the Apple][.
- joezydeco 13y agoMicrosoft sold hardware for the Apple ][. In 1980. http://apple2info.net/index.php?title=Microsoft_SoftCard http://apple2info.net/index.php?title=Microsoft_SoftCard At one point this was MS's biggest selling product.
- simias 13y agoI wish people would stop submitting "TL;DR" comments here. What's the point? Enabling people who didn't read TFA to post anyway? If the article was particularly dull or uninformative I'd understand but in this case it's very well researched and full of interesting bits of lore. If you can't stand to read more than two sentences in a row I suggest you stick to twitter.
- eplanit 13y agoI appreciate the TL;DR in this case, as I could have done without the rather odd egoistic intro. in the article. One would think the author had just solved P=NP. "I have performed a real world hack...Through the use of my knowledge of computer magazines...my sharp eyes...I have overcome the limited amount of information available...and with complete certainty...I finally achieved my goal on 2013-02-24 at 5:30pm." I mean, it is cool and of novel interest, for sure. The intro a little over-the-top, perhaps?
- bittercynic 13y agoMy take on that was that he was poking fun at himself. At face value it sounds like inflated ego, but I think his tongue was firmly in his cheek.
- mratzloff 13y agoGiven his comment here[1] I don't think that's the case. Clearly the author is very proud of himself after years of wondering about it, so it's understandable why he feels this is a big achievement. I'm sure all of us have these little things that we'd like to know, and the cool thing about the Internet is that every year it gets easier to discover the answers. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944786
- at-fates-hands 13y agoAny chance someone has an original copy of this? I'm wondering how much it would fetch at an auction.
- vidarh 13y agoProbably not very much - look on Ebay, computer magazines of similar age show up all the times; huge amounts of people have garages full of old computer magazines, and the demand is fairly low. Only way it'd fetch a "high" price would be if someone managed to hype up the connection to the movie to ridiculous levels.