The Letters page of these magazines are as interesting as some of the
articles. Of course, when we're talking about over 20 years ago in a
hobbyist magazine, the letter-writers of one issue were quite likely to
write articles in the next.
Two extracts for you.
From David C. Broughton of Northwood, Middlesex, in the
November 1978
issue:
Here is a little puzzle to test your readers' 8080 machine ingenuity:
"Imagine you possess an 8080 with 64K bytes of read/write memory
which you want to clear. Write a program that sets all 65536 bytes
to zero."
From P.F.T. Tilsley of Loughborough, Leics., in the May
1979 issue:
The choice of the Z80 for a home system at this time is perhaps a
little rash because of the choice of 16 bit processors making
their appearance. A better choice would probably be the Z8000
which is due to be available in the next few months.
Three years later, I still bought a Z80 system. Ho hum.
Regards,
Paul