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In reply to the discussion: How to send an "E mail" 1984 [View all]William Seger
(10,778 posts)14. Yup, it was probably Compute
I had a small BASIC program for the VIC and C64 published in Compute in '84 that POKEd machine code into memory and then executed it. If you wanted to use it, you had to type in all those numbers a byte at a time in DATA statements and save in on a cassette drive. Fun stuff!
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Fortunately it was for a short time as part of a university course
The Velveteen Ocelot
Apr 2018
#40
I was at SIGGRAPH '83 when Steve Jobs introduced "Lisa" (for the bargain prices of $10,000)
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2018
#16