Thank you for that link!
Now I just need to find the archive of Popular Science magazines. Archive.org only has a few of them, though they do most of the Popular Mechanics issues into the 70's.?
I do metalworking and machining for fun now, and they both used to do a lot of home machine-shop articles.?
Back in 1988 or so, I put myself online with an H89 my FIL built. 300baud modem, and a terminal program I hacked a bit to use under both HDos & CP/M. When I switched over to IBM-PC clones got out of the habit of even trying to do much in the way of programming. Though I did hack a BASIC program to help me find satellites that were new and replacing some of the old DSCS satellites my unit was using sometime in the early 90's. Never did any serious programming myself, though. Just some fiddling around.
Bill in OKC
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On Monday, May 10, 2021, 12:07:49 PM CDT, saturn5tony via groups.io <saturn5tony@...> wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:29 PM, joshbensadon wrote:
I would hang out with my friend Walter, and we would bring out some BYTE or old Popular Electronics magazines and just read through articles, pointing out some interesting hind sight observations.? I'm looking forward to my retirement years!
Hi Josh (and Bill) Oh so true about looking at old Bytes and PE. I have been reading them every day for quite a few years now, as well as RE. Its fun to see where we are now compared to the late 70's, 80's. I find myself seeing what really happened within a different view now. You would think you new everything at 20 but when you look back, I missed so much fun for the sake of taking on any job to pay the bills.? I think I live on this site now,...?? with the others favs in there too. So true about? archive.org Bill. The net is full of great resources now than we have ever imagined.
-Tony
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Bill in OKC too