On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 03:29:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/29/2013 5:08 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
True, distribution was mainly by physical mail. There was some
via BBS's and Usenet, but these were severely limited by
bandwidth.
I'd receive bug reports by fax, paper listings, and mailed
floppies.
This was also the heyday of the BBC Micro in UK schools, and I
remember well the shelves full of books of sample programs in BBC
Basic. We had lots of fun typing them up, working out how they
worked, and then twisting them to our more evil designs.