I couldn't face any more code today, so I scanned the covers and "interesting" article pages of my 1970s issues of Scientific American magazine. This page <http://www.orthogonal.com.au/gallery/scientific_american_articles.htm> has thumbnails of the pages which anyone in a lockdown panic mind find soothing.
May 1975 Microcomputers - So those things weren't just a passing fad! May 1975 Randomness Apr 1977 Computer Algorithms - By Donald Knuth, his first volume of TAOCP must have been out by then. Aug 1977 A new kind of cipher - Martin Gardner reveals RSA to the world with a $100 challenge. Aug 1979 Public Key Cryptography - Two years later the algorithm is analysed. Dec 1979 Programming Languages - It's quaint reading now, and Pascal is the way of the future. There's some non-IT stuff as well into the 1980s: Original articles on the game of Life. The geometry of Chopin's music. Carl Sagan on SETI. Fractal music. Gödel, Escher and Bach book announcement. Imaginary numbers. Rubik's cube. Galois and the 5th degree equation. *Greg Keogh*
