[TOS] Fwd: [Marketing] The Guardian: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Great work, Derek! :)

--Sebastian

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Betreff: [Marketing] The Guardian: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 
21st    century
Datum: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:33:48 +0100
Von: Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
An: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,        Sugar Labs Marketing 
<marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-century

I taught myself BASIC and then 6502 assembly language on a Commodore
VIC-20 with COMPUTE! magazine back in the day.

But what I really liked was the incredibly friendly little manual,
such as this priceless advice for the BASIC prompt: "hit Enter a
couple of times to clear it out." Any engineer would have insisted
(correctly) that this was unnecessary... but that anonymous manual
writer was a psychologist; s/he knew that a computing novice nervous
about "harming" the machine could quickly gain confidence with that
little tic.

Sean.
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