Old computer magazines: favourite listings, cover stories, ads

I just found a box of Računari magazines in my aunt's attic, between a sewing machine and a sack of walnuts. Cover story of one: a review of a new home computer with an enthusiastic photo of a boy in a sweater, a joystick in each hand, as if the machine might fly.

Inside: a type-in program of four pages (BASIC listing!), a letter from a reader who found a bug on page 31, and an ad for blank tapes with a mountain landscape. I read for two hours and forgot dinner.

What were your favourite magazines? Did you type in listings? Did you ever find the typo?

I typed a 12 page assembler listing once. It crashed. After two weeks I found one wrong digit. I still remember the exact line. It's a scar.

The joy of getting the checksum column to match. We should digitise these and scan type-in listings into a searchable archive, with permission from publishers or heirs.

Archivist hat: scan at 400 dpi, save the metadata, note the condition. And be respectful about rights. I can help write a one-page procedure.

My son typed in a listing from a magazine and the machine drew a little sailing ship. I still have the cassette somewhere.

@baka_dragica FIND THAT CASSETTE. I will pay in cake.