Many years ago I got pretty popular in one of the technical magazines, Lifelines. I published a program I wrote in 8080 assembler code. A few days after that was accepted they asked me what else I had. All together I published 10 technical articles, three programs, a few book reviews, a few software reviews, and a hardware review.

Here are the three programs. Interesting stuff to look back on after 30 years. Enjoy!

This program called, List, is an 8080 assembler program to list out ASCII text files and page them on the screen. Simple now, but then it was a pain because type often ran ahead and was hard to stop and start.

This program called, PXTransfer, allowed users of the IBM mainframe’s XEdit to upload and download files. Mainframe time was expensive, and Princeton University students only got so much time. Many were buying Kaypro computers, and this was written with WordStar and Kaypro’s in mind.

This program, PreBasic, was really very useful at the time. It allowed you to write modular programs in BASIC without worrying about line numbers. It allowed you to include files and had a subroutine processing that allowed variable passing. Now that sound so exotic now I’m sure, but it was pretty cool in 1984.

Lifelines went out of business in 1985 and as such the copyright holder is not around to give permission to these. I’m the author and therefore am republishing these for historic purposes. I seriously doubt they have any commercial value. They are however (c) 1984 Lifelines Publishing, NY, NY.

Joe