On 2014-10-12, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jim Wilkins wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jim Wilkins wrote:

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I knew Wayne Green at the time, from Mensa, and he never said
anything about it.


It was in one of his editorials about early personal computing,
before you bought something off the shelf. He also talked about
adapting CD players into a method to distribute programs. BTW a lot
of his magazines are on http://www.archive.org where you can
download them for free.

Yeah, we discussed putting software CDs in the magazine. I didn't
think they would survive the mails unless protected by corrugated
cardboard. He did, and was right. My homebrew computer could read only
Teletype tape or its own 600 baud FSK cassette tapes so I had to
manually type in the magazine's programs anyway.


At one time he talked about shipping software on LP vinyl records.

Not just *talked* about it. There were a very few programs
shipped on the flexible records bound into magazines. They assumed a
specific audio cassette interface -- which usually was incomplatable
with mine -- and a specific CPU (which usually was not my MC6800. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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