Comments on: Usborne collection of 1980’s computer books! https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/02/07/usborne-collection-of-1980s-computer-books/ Fun with Virtualization Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Peter Godwin https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/02/07/usborne-collection-of-1980s-computer-books/comment-page-1/#comment-159173 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:51:46 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=5820#comment-159173 “Experiments with Your Computer”, I tool remember that one; it had things like driving a motor of the C64 User-Port! As a 7 year old, I had a blast reading through these books and inputting the listings (and working out why they didn’t work).

I do wonder how I can inspire my own children to take a look at programming. The field is certainly much more complicated now and there’s no “instant on” programming environments like the days of ubiquitous BASIC interpreters. Maybe the current set of Usborne books 🙂

]]> By: DOS https://virtuallyfun.com/2016/02/07/usborne-collection-of-1980s-computer-books/comment-page-1/#comment-159138 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 08:10:23 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=5820#comment-159138 Nice! They don’t have the one book that I had (and still have), “Experiments with Your Computer”, though. That was a disappointment at the time because our family had a PC and most of it was, as the page says, “written for 1980s computers such as the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro”, particularly the bits about attaching sensors to the machine I think!

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