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Re: [LUG] PCW magazine to close

 

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Tom Potts wrote:

On Friday 12 June 2009 12:59, Steve Lee wrote:
I was buying those 1984 issues when they came out :)  Probably for a few
years before that too, come to think of it.  There were some weird and
wonderful computers back then, it has to be said.

yeah and all those Basic code listings to type in ... fun
you should have got a MK14 - you had to type in the keyboard debouncer, then
the tape loader code, then load the pico-basic copied from Dr Dobbs (now that
was a real computer mag) then try and remember what you wanted to do in the
first place....

I've got a Mk14. Damn. forgot to add that to the list of assemblers. Horrid thing.

http://unicorn.drogon.net/stuff/mk14.jpg

Yes it was powered up in that photo. About a year or so ago.

Gordon
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