Lileks today delves into old computer magazines. In this case, old magazines for the Sinclair computer, the British version of the Timex Sinclair (which, to be honest, was the American version of the Sinclair).
I remember in seventh grade that Mr. Durst had a Timex Sinclair that we could play on during the lunch period in the middle of his math class. A small device with chiclet keys. I’m not sure I ever saw one in the wild (meaning at garage sales and estate sales around the turn of the century). But I wouldn’t have minded one.
But, as you can expect, in addition to cabinets full of Commodores and TIs, I have a closet full of Commodore magazines which we subscribed to back in the day. Maybe a couple of TI magazines or catalogs, too. But no Apples or Apple magazines, unfortunately. But plenty of books on how to program them and some handwritten programs for them (when I would write the programs by hand in middle school and type them in when I got to the computers up in the loft).
