Re: First computers . . .

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

Bill Smith wrote:
> 
> In article <3A4142BD.63E1C717@blakespot.com>, "Blake Patterson"
> <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:
> 
> >       Hey --- remember opening up early 80's Creative Computing mags and
> > seeing machine after machine, most with their own proprietary OS and
> > hardware, etc. - just page after page??  That was that stuff.  The
> > golden time.  Wow.  So fine.
> 
> yep.  i still have some issues of CC....  my wife can't quite understand
> why i look through them with a whistful smile on my face and stop every
> once in a while saying, "Hey, hon?  what do you think that a little drive
> like this cost twenty years ago?"....  drives her nuts.
> 
> you know, i go through some of their program printouts, and i wonder
> about converting them to C or something....  :)
> 
Yeah, me too. Actually, I remember *one* program published in Creative
Computing in C to begin with... It was a program for drawing a Serpenski
fractal. It is on page 168 of the July 1984 issue, Volume 10, Number 7.
Also I found a Pascal program for a cyrillic character editor for the
Apple II (page 120), as well as a FORTRAN program for half-toning
digital images (page 100) in the July 1982 issue, Volume 8, Number 7.
And lest you think this is only in the late issues, the November/
December issue for 1978 contains an Algol program for drawing Koch
snowflakes, as well as a FORTRAN program for solving alphametrics.

Well, of course, *most* (should I say 90%) of the programs in Creative
Computing are in BASIC. But I for one am amazed at the broad spectrum of
languages and ideas presented in Creative Computing. Many articles contained
the authors address, and I have on one occasion written the author for help.

Creative Computing...great magazine!!!

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