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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)

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Post by DonHopkins »

davidgay wrote: post #57
mwcampbell wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was probably true back then. My understanding is that Unix wasn't ready for commercial production work until the late 80s at least.

Sun launched in 1982, went public in 1986 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems ). One might presume that its customers thought it ready for commercial production work by the mid 80s at least...

Yes, they had a viable commercial Unix product from 1982 until the release of Solaris in 1992. It all went downhill from there. ;)

Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

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Post by DonHopkins »

II2II wrote: post #10
Uberphallus wrote: post #8

Earlier 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).

Remember when instead of ads having urls or QR codes, there was a pre-addressed postcard "Reader Service Card" in the back of the magazine with numbers for each ad that you could get more information about, by circling the numbers and mailing in the card?

p. 511: Reader Service

Check out some of the cool company names on that page: Some of them are such exuberant techno-babble!

BOB'S CHARTS. COMPUFUN. COMPUPRO/GODBOUT. COSMIC COMP ULTD. CYBERNETICS INC. DATAFACE. EXPOTEK. ELECTROLABS. GILTRONIX. JAMECO ELECTR (I LOVED their catalogs!). LEGEND INDUSTRIES. MACROTRONICS INC. MICRO DATA-TEK. MICRO-BAUD INC. MICROHOUSE. MICROMAIL. MICROSOFT. MICROTAX. MINI MICRO MART. MOUNTAIN VIEW PRESS. MUSYS CORP. NETRONICS. PEGASUS DATA SYS. PERCOM DATA. PI-TECH. PROTECTO ENTERPR. QUADRAM CORP. QUASAR DATA PROD INC. DATGO. RADIO SHACK CIV. RED BARON COMP PROD. S-100 INC. SCION CORP. SINCLAIR RESEARCH. STACKWORKS. SUBLOGIC. SUNTRONICS. SUPERSOFT. TECH-DATA. TELETEK. TELEVIDEO INC. TERMINALS TERRIFIC. TERRAPIN INC. THUNDERWARE. US ROBOTICS. VIDEX. VISICORP INC. VOTRAX. VR DATA. VYNET CORP. WINTEK CORP. XITEN SYSTEMS. XAVAX CORP. YORK-10. ZEPHYR INC. ZOBEX.

Inquire No: [1..438] Page No: [1..511]

To get further information on the products advertised in BYTE, fill out the reader service card with your name and address. Then circle the appropriate numbers for the advertisers you select from the list. Add an 18-cent stamp to the card, then drop it in the mail. Not only do you gain information, but our advertisers are encouraged to use the marketplace provided by BYTE. This helps us bring you a bigger BYTE. The index is provided as an additional service by the publisher, who assumes no liability for errors or omissions.

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Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

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Post by Miiko »

dr_zoidberg wrote: post #14

A 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…

A "big yellow book" I had / still have with a boy and a girl - and lot of pictures - is this one (it's in Russian, though, you may had different one):

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads....

French original book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122322._quoi_r_vent_les_...

Does it look familiar?

Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

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Post by dr_zoidberg »

Miiko wrote: post #83
dr_zoidberg wrote: post #14

A 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…

A "big yellow book" I had / still have with a boy and a girl - and lot of pictures - is this one (it's in Russian, though, you may had different one): https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.... French original book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122322._quoi_r_vent_les_... Does it look familiar?

No, but thanks for the suggestion. I should probably just draw the characters as best I could and head over to reddit or something.

Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

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Post by rzzzt »

rzzzt wrote: post #73
susam wrote: post #5

For all the Logo fans out here, here are some more Logo resources: 1. IBM PC Logo executable and manual (1983): https://winworldpc.com/product/ibm-logo/100 2. Atari Logo executable and manuals (1983): https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Logo 3. JSLogo (2009-2021): https://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ 4. Logo Exchange (1982-1999): https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/resources/nlx/ 5. Matrix bridge to Libera Chat…

At school, we used a Logo implementation that had a shape editor that you could jump into with a keyboard combination. You could edit 32×32(?) pixel images, and it came pre-populated with the default turtle, some animation phases of a stick figure, a house, heads, etc. IIRC, SHAPE changed the turtle image to the given shape, and you could control 8-ish independent turtles. It ran on MS-DOS systems. Does anyone know w…

Found it, it was LCSI's LogoWriter.

Re: Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

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Post by darkwater »

mseepgood wrote: post #26
darkwater wrote: post #17

Probably 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.

You are totally right, I completely forgot about it (well I had a photocopy of it when I was a kid...)
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