Magazine retrospectives

From: Paul E Coad <pcoad_at_crl.com>
Date: Fri May 16 14:13:34 1997

On Fri, 16 May 1997, Tim Shoppa wrote:

> > > If my memory is not failing me (more than usual)
> > >
> > > Dr. Dobbs Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia
> > >
> > > Subtitle: Running Lite without Overbyte
>
> The very first issue actually reads "Dr. Dobbs Journal of
> Tiny Basic Calisthenics and Orthodontia." The first couple
> years of issues heavily concentrate on Tiny Basic. After that
> they were a heavy promoter of Tiny C.
>
The original plan for DDJ was it was to run a total of 3 issues to discuss
Tiny BASIC. People liked the magazine and so they decided to continue
publishing it.

Last Thursday I got bound volumes 1-9 (minus 7) of DDJ. It is a lot of
fun reading these. Recrecational computing was an adventure back then.

--pec
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