I was eight years old when Logo taught me that the computer does what I tell it do to - no more, no less... Everything I learned ever since is just implementation details.
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Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
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Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of which more than half (of what I've skimmed through, at least) are ads. Makes FB at 1/4 ad content seem even reasonable.
The ads in a publication like Byte (or many of the other computer magazines of the day) were a different beast. Quite often, they were the only way to learn about new products and the products advertised were relevant to the audience of the magazine. It is a far cry from the mass market advertising found on Facebook (or television, or radio).
Yep. The time when print magazines and ads were actually interesting.
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#13LOGO was my first introduction to programming in 3rd grade back in 92-93 in Delhi/India.
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#14A bit off topic... When I was a child, we had at home a "big yellow book" (mind you, I was 4 or 5 at the time, so maybe not that big) that taught about how computers worked in the first part and in the second part had Logo and BASIC games you could type into your PC.
Since it was a book for children, it was full of illustrations but it went into some details (or maybe I'm adding stuff into it in retrospect). The main protagonists were a boy and a girl, with a pet (maybe a dog?). I think I remember the boy having some kind of curly/fluffy hair. I remember the eyes of the characters were distinctive, but can't really recall _how_.
Any idea or pointers about finding this book? I don't remember anything about the title, author, publisher, etc.
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#15Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#16We were taught Logo in the first year in highschool ( 1986 ) on a network of BBC B's.
Thanks awesome school!
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#17Probably unrelated but I really just love archive.org efforts to preserve knowledge, even if trivial, mundane or pop. The other day I was in nostalgia mode and wanted to play again Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 and they are perfectly available on archive.org in the abandonware section, comfortably packed in a zip file with even copy protection removed (this applies to MI2, MI1 didn't have any).
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#18Page 38 has an article about The Last One, a program generator that was supposed to make all other programs obsolete.
A bit like the low code stuff we are seeing today.
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of which more than half (of what I've skimmed through, at least) are ads. Makes FB at 1/4 ad content seem even reasonable.
The ads in a publication like Byte (or many of the other computer magazines of the day) were a different beast. Quite often, they were the only way to learn about new products and the products advertised were relevant to the audience of the magazine. It is a far cry from the mass market advertising found on Facebook (or television, or radio).
Right. They were ads for stuff you likely actually found interesting, not ads for reverse mortgages and dubious real estate investments.
Computer Shopper, another (and much, much larger, in terms of page count) magazine of the era was essentially nothing but ads. It had just enough editorial material to qualify it as a "magazine" under postal regulations (magazines had to pay less postage than pure advertisements). It sold like hotcakes.
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#20I remember this issue. I used to read Byte magazine cover-to-cover, multiple times per issue. I also built many of the circuits they published and learned a tremendous amount from both hardware and coding articles. It's hard for people today to imagine a monthly publication with over 500 pages, yet that's what Byte became. It was fantastic. I still have a box full of articles I clipped before discarding my collection…
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar was one of the best parts of Byte magazine, the first thing I read when I got a new issue. There were always a lot of hardware hacking projects in the TRS-80 Color Computer oriented Rainbow magazine, I learned a lot from those although I was always a bit weary of accidentally destroying a relatively expensive piece of hardware with a bad circuit.
The artwork is the biggest thing I miss from the early computer magazines. Really amazing stuff that reminded me of all the sci-fi magazines from the fifties. Nothing like that today.