Our Pet's First Steps

F people's computers Second class postage pee paid at Menlo Park Bo)( E California 94025 .~d Menlo Park, CA 94025 additional entry points $1.50 l3065JOH~SBC9 o 2239 n~o~ JCHSCN l56 LAGUN' 'ERR SOIt VALLEY, CA 93065 J OUR PET'S FIRST STEPS , , .. Send a different gift for the holidays! Give a gift subscription (or two l) t ' Computers this hord . 0 People s 1 ay season For onl $8 YOli can give a gift that k '. g y round. Every issue eeps ,comm all year bring exciting and u~ft~e~:le s. Comput,ers will listings, interviews e mmute arhcies, j more. ' games, announcements and Use the card in the m'd order subscriptions [,1 die of the magazine to Send in your gift sub or. y~urse~f and friends. we'll mail special gif~nptlons Immediately and time for the ho!'d announcement cards in rays. SUBMITTING ITEMS FOR PUBLICATION SUBSCRIPTIONS LABEL everything please, your name, address and the date; U.S. Subscriptions tapes should also include the program name, language and $S/yr. (6 issues) o VOL 8 N03 system. 0$15/2 yrs. (12 issues) NOV· DEC 1917 o Retaining subscription @$25 rs TYpE text if at all possible, double·spaced, on 8'h x 11 inch ($17 tax deductible) white paper. o Sustaining subscription @$100+ ($92+ tax deductible) STAFF CONTENTS DRAWINGS should be as clear and neat as possible in black ink on white paper. Foreign Surface Mail EDITOR PET NEWS & REVIEWS o add $4/yr. for Canada Phyllis Cole LISTINGS are hard to reproduce clearly, so please note: add $5/yr. elsewhere o ASSISTANT EDITOR 6 PET UPDATE • Use a new ribbon on plain white paper when making a Tom Williams listing; we prefer roll paper or fan-fold paper. Foreign AIRMAIL ART DIRECTOR Chuck Peddle of Commodore tells what is and isn't happening 7 PET vs TRS·80 • Send copies of one or more RUNs of your program, to o add S8/yr, for Canada Meredith Ittner verify that it runs and to provide a sense of how things o add $111yr. for Europe PRODUCTION Commodore's Peddle and Radio Shack's French comment work - and to motivate more of us to read the code. o add $14/yr. elsewhere Donna Lee Wood 8 OUR PET'S FIRST STEPS RUNs should illustrate the main purpose and operation of ARTISTS an evaluation which includes timing tables and a drawing program your program as clearly as possible. Bells, whistles and Back issues, $1 each; indicate Volume and Maria Kent special features should just be described in the documen· Issue number, how many copies of each. An Ann Miya COMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE tation unless they're particularly relevant. order card is at the center of the magazine. judith Wasserman • Paper tapes of both the program and runs can provide us Vol. " No.3 TYPISTS 26 THERE AIN'T NO USER SCIENCE with a way to make our own listing if we need to. Then, if Vol. 3, No.1 Maria Kent a tongue·in-cheek discussion of interactive systems by Jacques Vallee you give us permission, we can let CCC (Community Com· Vol. 4, Nos. 3, 4, 5,6 Barbara Rymsza 34 IF 'SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL',S MICRO MARVELOUS? puter Center) sell your program cheaply via paper tape, to Vol. 5, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Renny Wiggins Andrew Clement looks at micro·computing as if people mattered further the spread of inexpensive software. Finally, if we Vol. 6, No.1 BOOKSTORE 45 810FEEOBACKANDMICROCOMPUTERS PART II are so lucky as to have aocess to a system on which your Dan Rosset Tim Scully discusses using micros to explore 'inner space program runs, we can try it out ourselves. PROMOTION • Make sure your code is well documented .- use a separate Foreign Distributors of People's Computers Dwight McCabe ARTICLES sheet of paper. Refer to portions of code by line number or Andrea Nasher label or address please, not by page number. When writing Vincent Coen Home Computer Club CIRCULATION 16 TINY LANGUAGES STRIKE AGAIN documentation, keep in mind that readers will include LP Enterprises 1070-57 Yamaguchi 8i11 Bruneau beginners and people who may be relatively inexperienced 313 Kingston Road T okorozawa, Saitama, JAPAN DRAGON EMERITUS Bob Albrecht and Dennis Allison continue designing a language for kids with the language you're using. Helpful documentation/ liford, IG 1 1PJ Bob Albrecht 21 Z-BO PILOT annotation can make your code useful to more people. Essex, UK Kougakusha Publ. Col, Ltd what it is and how to get it Documentation should discuss just which cases are covered Haneda Biru 403, 5-1 RETAINING SUBSCRIBERS 25 COMPUTER AS ART CRITIC and which aren't. Comicro AG 2·Chome, Yoyogi Jim Day considers scientific analysis of art David R. Dick • If you send us a program to publish, we reserve the right to Baderstrasse 281 Shibuya·Ku, Tokyo 151 48 SURVIVOR annotate it (don't worry, we won't publish it if we don't CH-8003 Zurich JAPAN John B. Fried Mac Oglesby's 2·person game is based on 'Ufe' like it). SWITZERLAND Scott Guthery, Computer Recreations • Last but not least, please try to limit the width of your Computer Age Company, Ltd W. A. Kelley 52 TEACHING MATH WITH OZ GRAPHICS listings: 50-60 characten is ideal. Narrow widths mean less Pan Atlantic Computer Sys. Kasumigaseki Building John C. Lilly Harvey Cohen and David Green teach kids using computer graphics Frank Otsuka reduction, better readability, and better use of space. Frankfurter Stras$! 78 3-2·5 Kasumigaseki 58 THE GREAT SAN ANDREAS FAULT CAPER COMES TO A CLOSEI Bernice Pantell D61 Darmstadt, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 100 S~eve Witham takes on California's infamous earthquake fault Larry Press LETTERS are always welcome; we assume its OK to publish WEST GERMANY JAPAN them unless you ask us not to. Upon request we will withhold REGULAR STUFF your name from a published letter, but we will not publish ASCII Publishing SUSTAINING SUBSCRIBERS correspondence sent to us anonymously. We reserve the right 305 HI TORIO 4 LETTERS to edit letters for purposes of clarity and brevity. 5-6-7 Minami Aoyama Algorithmics Inc, Bruce Cichowlas' questions, answers, comments, programs, and more Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107 Don L. 8ehm 11 THE DATA HANDLER USER'S MANUAL Part 6 JAPAN William Berch, Computer House, Inc more from Don Inman on programming the 6502 BYTE Publications, Carl Helmers, Virginia Peschke, Manfred Peschke 22 PILOT CAl Paul, Lori and Tom Calhoun more English composition CAl programs from Ellen Nold and Salll, Cannom Peopls's ComputsfS is published bimonthly by People's ComputerCompany, 1263 EI Camino Real, Box E, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Bill Godbout Electronics 32 FORTRAN MAN People's Computer Company is a tax-exempt, independent, non-profit corporation, and donations are tax-deductible. Dick Heiser, The Computer Store further adventures of Lee Schneider's and Todd Voros' swashbuckling hero Second class pOltage paid at Menlo Park, California, and additional entry points. 42 REVIEWS Copyright © 1977 by People's Computer Company, Menlo Park, California. a quintet of reviews from various folk 59 ANNOUNCEMENTS 2 PEOPLE'S COMPUTERS NOV-DEC 3 illfomlation 011 SMALLTALK becomes excellent articles you printed on robot Finally, something for myself: The available we'll keep you posted; for pets. With pet robots and a bit more only computer I have access to runs only starters, see Dellllis Allison's comments positive mass media image, such as that FOCAL. Do you have any software in all SltfALLTALK alld other lallguagesoll presented by C3PO and R202 in Star FOCAL? Also, can you send me some LETTERS pages 18 - 21. And dOIl't miss Han'ey Wars, the public may yet overcome its info on your publications? Cohell5 article (pages 52 - 58) on how he fears of these devices. Not since the uses a graphics-criellfed lallguage 10 teach great Robby the Robot in Forbidden Sincerely, math to kids. Planet has more been done to show the Joe Boyle the border between 2 quadn!lnU instead of positive constuctive values of what will 1013 Lake Forest Dr Hey, PCC People! Several people have mentioned kids' seeing only the one you're in you $81 part.of soon become man's greatest servants. Oaremont, CA 91711 computer books IIOt included ;11 Betsy the one you're in end part of thl! one beSide Once again, keep up the good work! I understand your fervor to upgrade the Rosell'S article - we'd love to have you. Dear Ph yllis, We'll see what we can do - meanwhile rel'iews of them. How about sellding in journal, but please don't outgrow me and Plus anything else anyone can think of. Frank Stodolka, Treasurer readers from the Los Angeles area might the other True Beginners in computing. a paragraph or two describing them? Not Congratulations on your new format! ATRA, Inc. want 10 call Jim Lodd. just you jane. but Bob Kahn and al/ you There are plenty of slick, sophisticated Tat's all four nouw. One problem I am having with old issues Box 456 others out there! of the PeC newspaper is that slowly but Minneapolis, MN 55440 publications for people who really under SINcereiee, stand computers; I know, because my Douglas "Oit-Oit" Philips surely it promoted disintegration of my husband gets scads of them. But, I copies. This was sometimes accelera ted Gentlebeings: subscribe to you (twice - at home and McCombs Rd RO#2 ~ by the rough handling the U.S. Post Thanks muchly for your kind words.

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