Keyboards, Keyboards, and more... a trip down the past (dim).../members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/keyboards-keyboards-and-more-a-trip-down-the-past-dimWhy am I using the old image in this blog? Well, I&#39;m going back to the dim past about a year or so before I got my job at Interdata. To the year 1975 in the past, we had a magazine called , they had an article by Carl Helmers, entitled: Deciphe...en-USTelligent Community 12RE: Keyboards, Keyboards, and more... a trip down the past (dim)...https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/keyboards-keyboards-and-more-a-trip-down-the-past-dimSun, 12 May 2024 19:18:24 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:dc09ee93-3298-44c7-93b1-9e38969b6378DAB0<p>I was a subscriber to BYTE for many years.</p> <p>It was a very interesting period back then as the first microcomputers hit the market and lots of variations of hardware became available for use.</p> <p>Buyer beware.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=27956&AppID=300&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Keyboards, Keyboards, and more... a trip down the past (dim)...https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/keyboards-keyboards-and-more-a-trip-down-the-past-dimSat, 11 May 2024 13:31:51 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:dc09ee93-3298-44c7-93b1-9e38969b6378dougw2<p>My company paid for subscriptions to magazines like Byte, Electronics and PC Magazine and I devoured them instantly, circling a few dozen bingo card numbers on the way.</p> <p>How many people remember using those magazine bingo cards?. Those bingo cards resulted in me receiving a stack of mail every day that was over 12 inches high.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=27956&AppID=300&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Keyboards, Keyboards, and more... a trip down the past (dim)...https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/keyboards-keyboards-and-more-a-trip-down-the-past-dimSat, 11 May 2024 10:20:28 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:dc09ee93-3298-44c7-93b1-9e38969b6378javagoza1<p><span>Byte magazine used to arrive in Spain several months after its publication. I recall having to develop a file compression tool for the RSX-11M operating system on a DEC PDP-11. This task was based on an article about Huffman coding that I had read in an early 80s issue of Byte. Reading articles of such high technical detail and clarity was immensely satisfying.</span></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=27956&AppID=300&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Keyboards, Keyboards, and more... a trip down the past (dim)...https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/keyboards-keyboards-and-more-a-trip-down-the-past-dimSat, 11 May 2024 09:12:46 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:dc09ee93-3298-44c7-93b1-9e38969b6378Andrew J0<p>You can view it online:&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09/page/n63/mode/2up" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" data-e14adj="t">https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09/page/n63/mode/2up</a>&nbsp;(new window)</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=27956&AppID=300&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">