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ROM - Computer Applications For Living ($2.00)

This is the cover of the first issue of the magazine, dated July 1977. I think that the magazine published a dozen issues before going under. Some of the articles in this issue:

Home Computers: Here Today, Everywhere Tomorrow
The Care and Feeding of Your Home Computer
Altair and the Art of Motorcycle Shop Maintenance

and my favorite...

Digital Foam: The Sexiest Peripheral
Computer Notes (50¢)

This is Volume 3, Issue 4 dated September 1977. Some of the articles:

Need an Inexpensive CRT?
Build Your Own Interface
What's Microcomputer Class Without an Altari 8800b
Programmable I/O Made Possible With the PIA
Glitches: Troubleshooting the 88-4PIO
Recreational COMPUTING ($2.00)
formerly People's Computers

This copy is dated Jan - Feb 1979, and is Vol. 7, No. 4, Issue 37. By this time the Apple II and TRS-80s were fairly common, and were featured in many articles:

A New Algorithm for Chess, Part 1
Apple II: Easy I/O Sensing and Control
Artificial Intelligence

and in the Games and Stuff section:

TRS-80: Miles Per Gallon Program
An Electronic Desk Calendar (for the TRS-80)
Building a Hi-Res Shape Table for the Apple II
Computer Music Journal ($14.00 for 6 per year)

June 1977 saw this Vol. One, Number Three. Electronic sound and music was one popular use for micros. Articles include:

Some Reflections on the Nature of the Landscape within which Computer Music Systems are Designed
Lexicon of Analyzed Tones
The Simulation of Moving Sound Sources

These guys were pretty serious! Randy

 


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