On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:17, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > It was fairly common in the early 80's for application source to be > > printed in a variety of magizines and to be shared between users. I'm > > not referring to pirated software, but rather Free software. I remember > > Commodore (yes Commodore) magazines with the source for applications > > printed among their pages. > > Home comput(er/ing) Magazine (HCM) used to publish code for 5 or 6 > different computers, atari 800?, ti99/4a, c64, vic/20, etc. Back in the > early 80's, so I dont'r emember what all they covered. 99'r mag had a > similar idea, but only for the ti99/4a. > > Talk about portability, even back then. They actually had a program you > inputted your program into, and it would do a crude checksum to make sure > you typed your code in properly. > > Have i dated myself now? :D
Not terribly. All you've told us is that you're most likely somewhere at or after your early to mid twenties. :) I'm 23 and I remember helping my dad type in code for our Commodore 64 from a magazine... and today I'm a 'Linux Geek(tm)'... imagine that... ;) Now, if you were to say that you read the original printing of 'The Story of Mel' during your lunch break one day and agreed wholeheartedly, THEN you would be dating yourself. ;) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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