Did you ever stare at the ads in your favorite computer magazine and wish you could afford those cool systems or games? I have. Now I look back at computer history through those ads. I also republish interviews and comics from those magazines.
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Microsoft Systems Journal Interviews Gordon Letwin (1987)
CAFTP Editor’s Note: My temporary second job will be ending soon, so I’ll be able to start posting more often. Until then, enjoy this interview about MS OS/2. Just think, if Microsoft had not fallen out with IBM, we’d be on OS/11 by now. Ma...
ROM Magazine Interviews Roberta Williams (1983)
From the October 1983 issue of ROM Magazine
Interviewed by Peter Ellison
Roberta Williams is known to all of her followers and fans as the one who brought graphic adventures into their homes. Back in 1980, before the graphic adventure was...
bitCards
From the November 1983 issue of Creative Computing magazine
The Company
bitCards, Inc. was founded in September of 1983. According to the records from the Florida Department of State, the company was dissolved in October 1991 because t...
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Jef Raskin Interviews Dr Dobb (1984)
From the November/December 1976 issue of People's Computer Company magazine
[CAFTP Editor’s note: This “interview” took place two years before Raskin was hired by Apple and three years before he started the Macintosh project.]
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