#paperware — Public Fediverse posts

Today I had an all-day seminar about "Code Critic" at MeWi Uni Bonn. I organized the talks of the students as a symposium. The last talk was about the #GOTO controversy that started in the end of the 1960s with a rant from Edsger W. #Dijkstra and lasts until today. The student's talk ended with a self-made meme.

#BASIC #CCS #CriticalCodeStudies #Paperware #ComputerArchaeology

Next week I will give a talk at the lecture series "Digital Humanities im Fokus" at the Rostock University - invited by @toroe.

I will talk about my #BASIC research project, its materials, methods, and first outcomes:

https://www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/digital-humanities/rosdh/ringvorlesung/2024/n/literatur-fuer-compiler-was-koennen-computer-lesen-was-menschen-gelesen-haben-was-eigentlich-nur-computer-lesen-sollten-188647/

#ComputerArchaeology #PaperWare

FRAK ("List Fakultetskog Racunardskog Kluba Fakulteta Graditeljskih Znanosti Sveucilista u Rijeci") was the first jugoslawian Computer Fanzine - made by students of engineering at the University in Rijeka in 1982 (until at leat 1985) for mostly HP and TI Calculators, #ZXSpectrum, #SharpMZ and other #HomeComputers with a built-in #BASIC. It is not digitazed and archived online yet ... 13 issues are stored in PEEK&POKE's magazine archive as #PaperWare.

Today: Searching for more #BASIC #BreakOut listings in #PaperWare from Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the USA for #MSX and #TI99 #homecomputers

Most interesting find: a listing entitled "Demolidor" for the #AppleII printed as an example for practical game programming in the portuguese 5-volume "Enciclopedia pratica de informatica".