ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2019 Entry 17th May 2019: Post 02: Home Computing Weekly Home Computing Weekly In the previous blog I used a couple of example programs for the Oric taken from Home Computing Weekly. It is easy to forget that when computers first came out you were literally greeted with just a flashing cursor on the screen. To get the computer to do anything you needed to input your own programs. If you were lucky you had taped programs that could be loaded. And so in the day we had often weekly publications that carried a spread of programs for the more popular of the computer platforms. I can recall buying my weekly harvest of computer publications and then spending way too many hours inputting the quite endless and tedious data. Often sadly the programs were bugged or pretty poor. Regularly the computer would crash or fail to record data. I can recall having several goes at transferring data from paper to computer. What is staggering is that I have no record of any of these little gems on any of my tapes. So useless I guess they were. I say useless, but in truth what they did do was teach me the basics of how to program the computer. Also it allowed me to use the lines to make the computer do other things than the programs original intention. So here are a few more pages from the magazines I used to compose the blog on the Oric. I would certainly recommend anyone interested in learning BASIC programming to get hold of a few of the magazines and have a play. I actually found the help sections in these mags a wealth of information that I have bits of paper inside marking the useful stuff for future reference. When I read many of the posts on current blogs I am often amused at how little folk actually know these days and or have forgotten. The great thing about reading from the day is that those writing in the magazines were actually in the front line of the processes of the day. Alway informative. Home Computing Weekly

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