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kilobits
20-04-2012, 02:26 PM
Hey Hey Hey

Who here remembers waiting for those computer magazines that had weekly / monthly DIY computer programming projects for the early home PC's ?

Each edition would have the next part of code that would have to be typed into the machine and saved onto a cassette and then reloaded and added to for every edition... until finally you had a full, complete basic program that you would then have to go through line by line on the TV screen (no printer) and spot your spelling / typos in order to FINALLY make it run... and the air punch / WHOOOP of "Yowzer" when the little blobs of colour finally moved and the little speaker burped some sounds in a musical fashion.

I do... and I miss them... nzb and torrents and pirate bay just are not the same.

/sighs

Pages and pages of...

http://www.vintagecomputer.net/images/thm_Eliza_code.jpg

or

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/ComputesGazetteProgramPage.jpg

Which, in time, gave you;

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/Arcade_Volleyball.png/250px-Arcade_Volleyball.png



A type-in program, or just type-in, is a computer program listing printed in a computer magazine or book, meant to be typed in by the reader in order to run the program on a computer.

Very common in the early home computer era of the late 1970s and 1980s, type-ins existed because of the period's lack of inexpensive portable storage media, the low frequency of usage of modems and bulletin board systems, and the relatively short length permitted for a program on a home computer with a main memory of a few tens of kilobytes[dubious – discuss]. Type-ins were often seen as useful for learning programming code (with users sometimes rewriting a program written for one system for use on another).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program

oldhat
23-04-2012, 12:45 AM
There were even books full of BASIC listings in most libraries in the 80's.

This should bring back more memories: http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/