Three months after the previous article was in print another article appeared in the June 1981 issue. However, the title of the article was not mentioned on the cover.This article too was located in the library stacks of the University of Southern Mississippi. And as far as I know there are no archives of the old issues of this excellent magazine.
Finding old computer magazines does reveal that the old timers paid much more for their computers than the current generation of computer users does. For example the Super PET computer I purchased in 1981 cost $1495 for the printer. $1895 for a dual floppy drive and another $1995 for the computer itself. Today one can purchase a much better printer for just a little more than the costs of the ink cartridges!!
The naame of the article was: Expand PET Memory and it ran from pages 177 to 183 in the June 1981 issue. This concerns a feature of the old systems which set up the size of the BASIC program in certain registers. By altering the registers it was possible to have one program be replaced by another. Now this allowed much larger programs to be created. This is the day of 8k and not 8 gig memory systems. The PC when it first appeared would only allow memory up th 640k.
Also for just a few dollars one my purchase multi gig usb sticks for expanding the memory of their systems.
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