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I know most of you started the QB scene at an early age,
but you probably weren't young enough (or old enough)
to remember the kid's magazine 1-2-3 Contact. There
used to be a TV show focused on this magazine, also.

Anyhow, the Contact magazine used to answer all kinds
of questions, but the technology section was a particularly
interesting one.

The very early issues of Contact were very in to the Apple ][
and BASIC. It featured a section called Basic Training, which
posted code for games and other nifty programs at the time.

I've dug through my basement archive and found two issues
with code in them (I've lost the older ones, but they were
very fun).

Scanning in those very old articles and their source codes
has been a pleasure:


Basic Training May 1990 Page 1
Basic Training May 1990 Page 2
Basic Training October 1990


Pete, Barok, Wildcard, whoever wants, can have these.
The magazine might continue today, but it sucks last I
saw of it (and it's for an even younger audience than it
used to be for). They're so old and outdated I wouldn't
worry about the copyright issues (same with QB, no
harm no foul?).

Wow, awesome!

That "Stress Test" program is pretty funny.

I'm gonnal post these in the QB Zines section on my website. They're technically not QB-specific magazines, but they're very cool.

Cool...I think I used to get that magazine...back in the 80s maybe?

Yep yep! It wasn't too popular, but it was probably one
of the most interesting.

Very cool links potato!

cool! Definately a read!

Very nice

My elementary school used to carry old issues of 123Contact, but I think that they stopped while I was in 2nd grade.

--pr0gger, who needs a new nickname

To Potato:

Great links, man!! !

Look now, I can honestly remember back in the rather day as plain as ever from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s myself about how the 321 Contact magazines (apparently made by the Children’s Television Workshop, too) has had a BASIC programming section there. WOW!! And to think that I *used* to have some of them back at that time, too — I was about 11-13 years old back then when I first read them from the serious moment that I received them in the mail, originally! No kidding!!! !

Potato, your thread here is really very richly fascinating and it targets and hits the bullseye based on what it is talking about! OUTSTANDING JOB!!! ^_-=b !!

See you later, and way to bring back some excellent memories of mine, too! Thank you!!



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