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... programs . What this has meant for the machine's abilities is well summarized by the late British writer Christopher Evans , in his book The Mak- ing of the Micro . In the first place , one could take advantage of the com- puter's huge ...
... programs . What this has meant for the machine's abilities is well summarized by the late British writer Christopher Evans , in his book The Mak- ing of the Micro . In the first place , one could take advantage of the com- puter's huge ...
Page 98
... Programs to accomplish all these tasks were not inordi- nately difficult to write . Both skilled amateurs and profes- sionals could create such programs on their own computers , test them , and record them on tape cassettes or floppy ...
... Programs to accomplish all these tasks were not inordi- nately difficult to write . Both skilled amateurs and profes- sionals could create such programs on their own computers , test them , and record them on tape cassettes or floppy ...
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... programs were slow . So Rubinstein contracted with Rob Barnaby , a free - lance programmer who had also been at IMSAI , to write a word - processing program . Rubinstein dubbed the program WordStar , and brought it to market in June ...
... programs were slow . So Rubinstein contracted with Rob Barnaby , a free - lance programmer who had also been at IMSAI , to write a word - processing program . Rubinstein dubbed the program WordStar , and brought it to market in June ...
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