TRS-80.org » Wayne Green http://www.trs-80.org TRS-80.org is a source for information about the Radio Shack TRS-80 line of computers, hardware, and software, with articles, interviews, and more! Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:36:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 BYTE http://www.trs-80.org/byte/ http://www.trs-80.org/byte/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:08:00 +0000 Matthew Reed http://www.trs-80.org/byte/ BYTE: The Small Systems Journal was one of the longest running computer magazines and also one of the most popular. It was published from September 1975 to July 1998 and at one point in the 1980’s was the largest magazine in the country. In addition to the United States version, there were also twenty licensed editions of BYTE published in other countries.

BYTE was described by editor Carl Helmers in the premiere issue as “a monthly compendium of information for the owners and users of the new microcomputer systems becoming widely available at moderate cost.” It began at the start of the microcomputer revolution, even before mass-marketed computers were widely available, but also spanned into the age of the Internet and the World Wide Web.]]> http://www.trs-80.org/byte/feed/ 0 80 Microcomputing http://www.trs-80.org/80-microcomputing/ http://www.trs-80.org/80-microcomputing/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:38:06 +0000 Matthew Reed http://www.trs-80.org/80-microcomputing 80 Microcomputing, also known as 80 Micro, was the most famous of the TRS-80 magazines and the best remembered. It was the first of the platform-specific computer magazines to become very popular, creating a model that many other magazines followed. Harry McCracken, former editor-in-chief of PC World, described PC World as “essentially an 80 Micro clone that happened to be about Windows, not TRS-80’s.”

80 Microcomputing published for 101 issues from January 1980 to June 1988, plus one special anniversary issue in 1983. With the combined June/July 1982 issue, 80 Microcomputing was renamed to 80 Micro and the cover date was advanced one month.

The magazine was very successful and spawned:]]> http://www.trs-80.org/80-microcomputing/feed/ 11 LOAD-80 http://www.trs-80.org/load-80/ http://www.trs-80.org/load-80/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:12:00 +0000 Matthew Reed http://www.trs-80.org/load-80/ 80 Microcomputing published many reader submitted programs. These programs were among the most popular features of the magazine but needed to be typed into a computer before they could be used. Typing in long program listings was time consuming and there was always the real possibility of introducing errors during the typing process.

Selling a tape containing the programs from 80 Microcomputing was an idea mentioned almost from the beginning of the magazine. That idea eventually led to the product named LOAD-80. Wayne Green, the publisher of 80 Microcomputing, first referred to LOAD-80 in his “80 Remarks” column in the April 1981 issue:]]> http://www.trs-80.org/load-80/feed/ 0 Encyclopedia For The TRS-80 http://www.trs-80.org/encyclopedia-for-the-trs80/ http://www.trs-80.org/encyclopedia-for-the-trs80/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:35:52 +0000 Matthew Reed http://www.trs-80.org/encyclopedia-for-the-trs80/ 80 Microcomputing magazine was bursting at the seams. The publisher of 80 Microcomputing, Wayne Green, envisioned a new set of books: the Encyclopedia for the TRS-80. As the first advertisement for the Encyclopedia stated:]]> http://www.trs-80.org/encyclopedia-for-the-trs80/feed/ 0