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"Draxen" <ja...@SPAMjudgement.TRAPno-ip.com> wrote in message
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> Back in the early 80s when the 8-bit micro boom was at it's height in the
UK
> there were a few mags over here that specialised in printing listings for
> the readers. This is long before the days of cover mounted floppies or
even
> cassette tapes.

This reminds me, for some reason, in about 1979 I had a subscription to
Interface Age, though I didn't have a computer yet.  This was the days
before affordable floppy drives, when cassette tape was about all there was.
How to publish programs in a magazine, convenient for the user?  They put in
one of those floppy 33 1/3 RPM records.  The same as would be recorded on
the cassette tape.  I think they did a few of those.  I never got to use
one, though.

> The language of choice was BASIC, almost all the home machines ran it, and
> Star Trek was one of the most popular games. With the range of machines we
> had then there were about 6 or so mags supporting them for a number of
> years, you could count on a Star Trek listing popping up in at least one
of
> them every three or four months.

-- glen