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Re^2: The oldest computer book still on my shelves (or on my digital media) is ...

by smknjoe (Beadle)
on Aug 04, 2015 at 13:47 UTC ( [id://1137378]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: The oldest computer book still on my shelves (or on my digital media) is ...
in thread The oldest computer book still on my shelves (or on my digital media) is ...

Come to think it, mine would also be related to Commodore as well, but would be about the C64 instead. Still have a lot of magazines with basic and assembly language code snippets. And the things people are still using that machine for....

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Re^3: The oldest computer book still on my shelves (or on my digital media) is ...
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Aug 04, 2015 at 15:10 UTC

    Indeed!

    Sadly I lost many old Byte, Compute, etc. magazines when the lower levels of my cavern flooded...

    I bet you remember typing in lines and lines of numbers with checksums from Compute! books that represented machine-language programs fed to a special loader coded in BASIC... ;-)

    HTH,

    planetscape
      Yeah, LOL! I remember spending literally HOURS typing line after line of numbers not knowing what they all meant. Found out after reaching college and my first real job afterwards. I tried getting back into that a few years ago, but life is too busy with other interests. Oh, those good old days!

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