And the magazine article (mentioned in the Twitter thread - "Dr digital" page 98 - 73 magazine 1984):

https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1984-05/page/n97/mod...

The online version is pretty much unreadable for me on Firefox/mobile, but the Pdf is ok:

https://archive.org/download/73-magazine-1984-05/05_May_1984...

Ed: corrected link. The article itself would be a great hn submission - a comparison of time (writing+execution) of a simple program in basic, Pascal and cobol..