Love the old Ad. Bill Cosby hocking calculators in the one.
ITYM “hawking”.
Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
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Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#22LOGO was my first introduction to programming in 3rd grade back in 92-93 in Delhi/India.
Wow. Was that in school?
In early 2010s my school was still teaching turbo c++ in 'computer science' curriculum, which was an optional subject in 11th grade.
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#23My first contact (and love) with a computer was when I was attending a free computer introduction class, around 9-10 years old, and they showed us the familiar turtle of LOGO :-)
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#24I enjoyed a bit of Unix and C bashing here (): "Unix, C, and Pascal may be excellent teaching and development tools, but they may not be so good for commercial production work."
(): https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n19/m...
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
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#26Probably 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).
> MI1 didn't have any
It did. I still have my Dial-A-Pirate wheel.
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#27I 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…
Byte was great, but Creative Computing and Dr. Dobb's Journal were the ones I REALLY enjoyed and looked forward to every month.
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#28I enjoyed a bit of Unix and C bashing here ( ): "Unix, C, and Pascal may be excellent teaching and development tools, but they may not be so good for commercial production work." ( ): https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n19/m...
Had UNIX been sold at the same price as VMS and other systems back in the day, without any kind of source code available, history would have taken another path.
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#29I 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.
Indeed! I have had a very similar experience when I learnt Logo in 1992. I was nine years old then. I loved how we could just start the computer, insert a floppy disk, and start programming it immediately without jumping through too many hoops. It was simple, distraction-free, and fun!
I have written about my experience learning Logo and the impact it has had on me here: https://susam.in/blog/fd-100.html . Logo introduced me to the joy of programming!
Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
#30LOGO! How nice was the for loop!