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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 23:54:37 -0700
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From: Community Memory To: "Multiple recipients of list cpsr-history@cpsr.org" Subject: CM> Byte, Kilobaud, Creative Computing...
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Sender: "Walt Crawford" Subject: Re: Byte, Kilobaud, Creative Computing...
Re: Creative Computing, Byte, Kilobaud
I'm a lurker here (my first "programming" was in 1968,
on an IBM 188 Collator plugboard, so I'm a newbie)--but
I can add a little bibliographic research to Nelson
Winkless' excellent summary:
1. Creative Computing came first; it began publishing
with the November/December 1974 issue, and was shut
down (by Ziff-Davis, I believe) at the end of v. 11
in 1985.
2. Byte began in September 1975, so it's natural that
there would be some uncertainty about which came first.
3. Kilobaud began in January 1977 and continued for all
of 24 issues (1977 and 1978).
4. Perhaps the oldest of Wayne Green's publishing exploits
was "73" (various subtitles), which began in October
1960 and continued for a very long time. ("Green"
appears to be correct, incidentally.)
I miss Creative Computing...it was about *uses* for
computing, and had a soul that's missing in much of
today's PC literature.
-walt crawford, Research Libraries Group
br.wcc@rlg.org
Opinions mine; bibliographic data from RLIN, RLG's
hundred-million-record bibliographic database.
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Re: Creative Computing, Byte, Kilobaud
I'm a lurker here (my first "programming" was in 1968,
on an IBM 188 Collator plugboard, so I'm a newbie)--but
I can add a little bibliographic research to Nelson
Winkless' excellent summary:
1. Creative Computing came first; it began publishing
with the November/December 1974 issue, and was shut
down (by Ziff-Davis, I believe) at the end of v. 11
in 1985.
2. Byte began in September 1975, so it's natural that
there would be some uncertainty about which came first.
3. Kilobaud began in January 1977 and continued for all
of 24 issues (1977 and 1978).
4. Perhaps the oldest of Wayne Green's publishing exploits
was "73" (various subtitles), which began in October
1960 and continued for a very long time. ("Green"
appears to be correct, incidentally.)
I miss Creative Computing...it was about *uses* for
computing, and had a soul that's missing in much of
today's PC literature.
-walt crawford, Research Libraries Group
br.wcc@rlg.org
Opinions mine; bibliographic data from RLIN, RLG's
hundred-million-record bibliographic database.
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