The annual BASIC 10-liner competition was invented in 2011 by Gunnar Kanold, a retrocomputing enthusiast who is teaching STEM disciplines at a secondary school in Friedrichstadt, Germany. The goal of the contest is to write the most exciting computer game in just 10 lines of BASIC, without machine code subroutines. There are three categories limiting the maximum line length allowed: PUR-80, PUR-120, and PUR-256. There is also SCHAU-256 category for non-game software, and WILD for submissions not fitting into any other category. Program should run on a 8-bit computer — such as Atari, for which an emulator exists.

Apple Macintosh Classic - Review

In the late 1970s, the first personal microcomputers appeared, as well as a separate class of devices - word processors. These were microcomputers with specialized software focused exclusively on editing and printing texts.

In far 1988, being a sixth-grader, I became for the first time, acquainted with the computer. The DVK-3M with the integrated black-and-white display and two five-inch disk drives; gorgeous but not for now. My first acquaintance took place with games from ASP corp. ─ three young programmers who had specialized in computers of the DVK family.

Magnavox Odyssey is the world's first home game console. It was first introduced on May 24, 1972 and released in August of the same year, thus beating Atari's Pong system by three years.

In March 1971, Baer received the world's first patent for "television gaming and educational equipment" and, in fact, became the father of the gaming industry.

Grosch's Law - "Acquiring additional savings is only the square root of increasing speed - that is, to make calculations 10 times cheaper, you must do them 100 times faster."

If the aviation industry had grown as rapidly as the computing industry over the past 25 years, a Boeing 767 would now cost $500.

Video game pioneer Allan Alcorn is 71 years old. An outstanding American engineer was born on January 1, 1948 in San Francisco.