Information about Creative Computing
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The front cover of the April 1980 issue of Creative Computing.
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"Flip Side" of the April 1980 issue, with a parody of various computer magazines.
Creative Computing was one of the earliest magazines covering the microcomputer revolution. Published from 1974 until 1985, Creative Computing covered the whole spectrum of hobbyist/home/personal computing in a more accessible format than the rather technically-oriented BYTE. The magazine was founded by David H. Ahl, who sold it to Ziff-Davis in the early 1980s, but remained as Editor-in-Chief. Featured writers included Robert Swirsky and John J. Anderson. The magazine regularly included BASIC source code for utility programs and games, which users could manually enter into their home computers.
At the end of its run, Creative Computing was attempting to refocus on business computing (as was the trend in most computer magazines of the time), but was not successful at this and ultimately ceased publication.
Ted Nelson, known for the invention of hypertext, was briefly the editor.
The April, 1980 issue of Creative Computing contained clever parodies of all of the major computer magazines of the time.
External links
- Three Best of Creative Computing volumes are available at AtariArchives.org
- The full text of most of the issues from the last three years (1983-1985) of this magazine can be found at AtariMagazines.com
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Byte magazine was an influential microcomputer magazine in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the Wintel platform or the Mac, mostly from a business user's
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David H. Ahl is the founder of Creative Computing magazine. He is also the author of many how-to books, including Basic Computer Games, the first million-selling computer book. [1]
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Robert Swirsky (born December, 1962, Brooklyn, NY) is a computer scientist, author, and pianist. In the early 1980s, Swirsky was one of the first regular contributors to the nascent computer magazine industry.
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John J. Anderson or J.J. Anderson (November 8, 1956 – October 17, 1989) was a writer and editor covering computers and technology. The New Jersey native wrote for publications such as Computer Shopper and Atari Magazine.
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Basic may be:
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- BASIC, programming language
- Basic belief, a concept in foundationalist epistemology
- Basic (chemistry), the opposite to acidic, reacting with acids to form salts
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source code (commonly just source or code) is any sequence of statements and/or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language.
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Ted Nelson
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Hypertext most often refers to text on a computer that will lead the user to other, related information on demand. Hypertext represents a relatively recent innovation to user interfaces, which overcomes some of the limitations of written text.
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