by Happy Trails <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jan 12, 2008 at 07:27 AM
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:55:35 -0600, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>The programmer's magazines experimented with different ways to publish
>programs. Some tried using bar codes, some tried producing a disk that
>could be played on audio equipment and the sound input to a cassette I/O
>****t.
>
>But I agree, I had a lot more fun programming in those days. These days
>there's no room for fun anymore, and I really miss that.
Didn't one of them - not BYTE - the fat one dedicated to IBM pc stuff
- eventually run a BBS you could access by dialup on your 300/1200
baud modem and d/l the programs? I seem to remember doing that - Oh -
just thot of it - I think it was "PC MAGAZINE".
They had a lot of assembler programs/routines to play with as well
that I got more out of than the Basic ones.