Yet more computer nostalgia, it is becoming a bit of an obsession of mine at the moment.
Found on currybetdotnet
Anyway yesterday for the princely sum of 30 pence I purchased a 1983 hardback edition of “The Beginner’s Computer Handbook – Understanding & Programming The Micro” by Judy Tatchell and Bill Bennett, edited by Lisa Watts, published by Usborne Publishing.
It has been a very entertaining read, and one that has really brought home to me how much the arrival of computers in the home has changed things for society over the 21 years since it was published. It still seems to have that wonderful utopian feel I normally associate with the 60’s that computers are going to make everything easier in the future.
I’m pretty sure I had this book or something very much like it as having just seen pictures of it on currybetdotnet has brought back a lot of memories. Hours spent typing in code from books or magazines to get a crappy little game, god what was I thinking.
