Byte 1981 online version

This surely must have been mentioned before but I can’t say I’ve ever noticed it - you can read the entire Byte Smalltalk edition at https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-08/1981_08_BYTE_06-08_Smalltalk#page/n0/mode/2up

tim
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:04:02PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
> This surely must have been mentioned before but I can?t say I?ve ever noticed it - you can read the entire Byte Smalltalk edition at https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-08/1981_08_BYTE_06-08_Smalltalk#page/n0/mode/2up
>

Thanks. I kept my entire collection of Byte Magazine issues for years (no,
not years, decades) in the basement, moldering away with other indispensible
posessions such as plastic slide rules, old eyeglass cases, and unopened
junk mail. A real Andy Warhol scene. So what is the one and only issue of
Byte Magazine that I ever went back to look for? You guessed it, the 1981-08
issue.  And where was it? You guessed it, nowhere to be found.

I think I like the advertisements in this issue as much as anything. You
have to love the guy with the cutting-edge portable (sic) Osborne computer,
armed to the teeth with SUPERCALC(r) and WORDSTAR(r), and striding purposefully
into the future alongside an ordinary business person type guy armed only
with an old-fashioned leather briefcase.

Dave
 

On 20-11-2013, at 4:06 PM, David T. Lewis <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I think I like the advertisements in this issue as much as anything. You
> have to love the guy with the cutting-edge portable (sic) Osborne computer,
> armed to the teeth with SUPERCALC(r) and WORDSTAR(r), and striding purposefully
> into the future alongside an ordinary business person type guy armed only
> with an old-fashioned leather briefcase.

Me too. I especially like the two adverts for memory cards - fabulous, huge, fast memory expansion! 64Kb! Only $995! Now the kids complain about being limited to a pathetic little 4Gb and how that makes machine X useless.

tim
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Asking whether machines can think is like asking whether submarines can swim.

(and if you think that's
hyperbole, you really ought to haul out graphviz and take a long, hard
look at the dependency graph. Go make yourself some coffee while dot
munges the file (which you can generate off
https://gist.github.com/frankshearar/5781906)).

Frank,

Could you please post the command you run to display that graph? I have your .dot file and graphviz installed but its been years since I have used any of those tools.

thx.

t

Hi Tim,

Thanks for sharing.  I'm sure I had this issue but it is long gone.

>On 20-11-2013, at 4:06 PM, David T. Lewis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I think I like the advertisements in this issue as much as anything. You
>> have to love the guy with the cutting-edge portable (sic) Osborne computer,
>> armed to the teeth with SUPERCALC(r) and WORDSTAR(r), and striding purposefully
>> into the future alongside an ordinary business person type guy armed only
>> with an old-fashioned leather briefcase.
>
>Me too. I especially like the two adverts for memory cards - fabulous, huge, fast memory expansion! 64Kb! Only $995! Now the kids complain about being limited to a pathetic little 4Gb and how that makes machine X useless.
>tim

In the early to mid 70's I worked for a company that sold VM/CMS
timesharing on an IBM 350/158 (could have been 360, I can't remember for
sure) with 1 meg of ram.  It needed more memory but an additional 1 meg
cost $500.000.  That's right, 50 cents a byte.  Times have changed.

Lou

P.S.  Tim, I love reading your posts and I agree with 99% of what you have
to say.  We differ on little/big endian and I don't think I would be as big
a fan of RISC OS as you.  My early days of assembler language programming
(that I loved at the time) have left me with little love for doing things
the hard way.  Anyway, keep up the great work with the Raspberry and your
posts.
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Louis,

158 was a 370 model.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3158.html

Cheers,
Bob

In the early to mid 70's I worked for a company that sold VM/CMS
timesharing on an IBM 350/158 (could have been 360, I can't remember for
sure) with 1 meg of ram.  It needed more memory but an additional 1 meg
cost $500.000.  That's right, 50 cents a byte.  Times have changed.

Thanks Bob,

You are of course correct.  I think there were some 360's around the shop
(and they were all similar) but I should have remembered better.  I have a
head cold so maybe that's it.

Lou
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Keystone Software Corp.
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