11 Jan
2009
11 Jan
'09
6:54 a.m.
On Saturday 10 January 2009 10:01:30 am Tim Shoppa wrote:
Dr. Dobbs was pretty cool... up until the IBM PC came
out and
dominated everything. By the mid 80's all the Dr. Dobbs articles
were the-latest-TSR-to-do-something-in-MSDOS and it wasn't really
worth the effort for me to even look for something interesting
in it. That may have marked my turning point towards classic
computing, in fact :-).
Tim.
I too lost interest in it somewhere in there...
Fortunately, thanks to a listmember, I have some of the earliest issues on
hand here to browse. Unfortunately I need reading glasses to be able to get
much out of them. Oh well. :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin