Terminal Junkie's Workshop

[hirez]

You know there's no hope when you spot a pile of Byte magazines in the 'for disposal' pile at work and hunt out the good ones from the eighties. (NeXT, Windows 3.0, PS/2, Sun 3/80 and the like) From before the time it joined in the 'we test 600 mice' malarkey.

Ho hum.

Comments

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Did you utter the traditional "but I *needed* them" in their defence?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

No, but I was joined by one of the research students in my cube-grovelling.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the Next Black Box! Wow.

Now, what the Hell was the name of that S100 system I slavered over... Hell, I can't recall. I subscribed to Byte for many many years, but it was made of quality paper and was bloody heavy - in the end one house move was just too much, and they went out, along with all the Practical Electronics and Elektors and stuff.

Never thought much of Pournelle, but Ciarcia was a God.

Ah, have you ever read Soul Of The New Machine by Tracy Kidder?

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Good book, and you can get new copies shipped over from Amazon Marketplace USA for a total including shipping of about £4 :)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes, some number of years ago. Microserfs (Doug Coupland) and The Bug (Ellen Ullman) are equally good.

S100? Um, Compupro?

[beermat]

resists drooling over old Byte mags...

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of The Best of Byte Vol 1 (http://thepcmuseum.net/details.php?RECORD_KEY(museum)=id&id(museum)=481&PHPSESSID=aaf3f42da5fa7c7873ea68b361968c35) edited by David Ahl and Carl T. Helmers, Jr. printed March of 1979.



It is a fascinating read.