Articles from long past discovered

While looking through my old files I found an old copy of the Super Pet Gazette which I had saved. So this developed a desire to learn if by any chance there might be other issues of this to be found on the web.

When I entered the term Super Pet Gazette into the google search engine I learned that there were indeed many items entered. There was one which contained a list of files of the Super Pet Gazette which had been saved in pdf format. This covered some but not all issues from the beginning till the gazette ended publication in 1986.

The end of the Gazette was the decision my Commodore to quit making the Super Pet. This caused many of the members to change their alliance to the Amiga which Commodore acquired or the IBM PC which seems to think they invented the PC although Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore as well as several firms manufacturing CP/M machines had been selling personal computers before IBM thought of getting into the micro computer market.

Any way these files are found at the following:

http://6502.org/documents/publications/superpet_gazette

This will take you to the list of pdf files. I am introduced as an associate editor in Vol I issue 3. Then articles I wrote are found in almost all the remaining issues till the publication ends in 1986.

Whoops left out Watfive article

In reviewing the articles it seems that the article for Watfive was left out. Unless of course there is a new alphabet in which W comes after X! So I did a search and learned that I was writing this article about last Christmas and had written the editor that because my son had been shoot I was not quite as about my wits in writing as I might have otherwise been. This fact and the upset over the passing of my wife in Janurary of 2010 were having a deffinet effect upon my attitudes.

Then in Feb. I moved to a small town in Mississippi and was not able to keep my wife's final instructions: "Take care of my little dog." This due to moving into an apartment which did not allow pets. (You can see this little dog by searching for eronstuc on You Tube and viewing some of the videos which Ive posted. The one called the Knicks have nothing on us features a larger dog Toby and the little dog Liz playing with a ball.

Now just how much trouble would a six pound dog be in an apartment. Actually she is much more housebroken than a child who wets their diapers!.

Now to correct the ommission of the Watfive article. This was featured in the June 2011 issue and the following link will take you to the article:
http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201106/page19.html

Well I don't know where the bug is but I have tried this on Firefox, Opera, and Chronium on the Full Monty and then Konqueror and Iceweasel on my Knoppix 6.5 partitions and even though the date is clearly 201106, each browser takes you to 201108/page19.html. Once there on the line manually change the 08 to 06 and hit the go key and you will then be viewing the Watfive article. As they said on Laughin years ago Hmmm Very Interesting.

The Feb. Issue covers Vala and Visual Basic

Because February is the shortest month in the year and because it is also the month in which I celebrate my birthday we will offer two languages this month. (An old family tradidion with the Ratliff's was to have the period from Jan 31 to Feb 6 as birthday week. My Mom's birthday was Jan. 31, my step-brother's birthday was Feb. 2, my birthday is Feb. 4, and my son-in-law's birthday is Feb. 6.)

The month is also known for St. Valentine's Day and suitably our language selections begin with the letter V. Vala is a relatively new language designed for the Gnome desktop of a Linux system. Visual Basic is a language freely availavble (or at least a limited version of it from Microsoft.)

The following link will take you to the article devoted to these languages:
http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201102/page20.html

Jan 2011 issue covers Unicon

An earlier post covered the Icon language. The author of the language when told that this would not function in the PCLINUX distribution told me that users should watch the links as it was still being actively developed. So if possible it would be modified to function with many versions of linux.

At present my access to the internet has been inturrupted and I am reaching it through the local library. This post will be modified to include the cover of the Jan. issue as well as other information once I have regained access to the internet from home.

To see the post of this language coverage check out the following link:

http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201101/page17.html

This schold tickle your fancy.

As I mentioned I should have the coverage for the December issue up in just a few days. SO when I checked my email I noticed that the material was available for down load. The December issue also features a catalog of gifts which any Linux fan would appreciate.

The language of the month covers Tcl/Tk and Tcl is properly pronounced as tickle.
This language is noted for the ease with which it allows graphics to be displayed.
The text introduces you to the language and the demo shows just a little of the power of the language.

Enjoy.

The text of the article will be fount at the following link:

htttp://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201012/page15.html

Three languages to be thankful for

The month of November was over before i realized that I had not posted the coverage of the languages published in the November issue of the magazine.
I received my copy of the magazine for December and noted that the language was
Tcl/Tk and I wondered what had happened to the article I wrote on Q,R.S?

So I checked my blog and learned that I last posted the coverage of Pascal in October. Perhaps I was thinking that had she lived Nov 10 would have been her 64th birthday. Or I would be thinking of the Thanksgiving Holidays ahead.

But most of all I was kept busy tending to my son who was shot in the leg on October 30. So I was quite busy running him to the hospital and to doctors appointments and getting medicine from the wrong drug stores. It seems they would tell me they called it into one store and when visited I would learn it was at the other location. Or even perchance another chain. Example the drugs the told me were called into Walgreens were actually called in to the Walmart store and not the closest one at that.

So any way featured in the November issue are three languages: Q, R, and S. All
three are statistical languages and are used a lot for creating graphical information too. The S language is proprietary. R is an open source version with most of the features of S.

As it is already December the coverage for the article on Tcl/Tk will be posted to the blog in a few days.

Here it is time for Halloween already and this month we have a special treat for you in the form of coverage of the language Pascal. This language was introduced to computing about forty years ago. That was the same time I was learning my first major language Fortran.

This fact brings back memories of my college days and courting my wife. The language has been used on many platforms and has taught millions to program using structured language techniques. The text of the article will be found at the following link:
http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201010/page19.html

I hope you enjoy the article. Till next month