Paperweight, an April Fool's Prank from 40 years ago
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If you don't want to subscribe to this newsletter to read about this program, https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-41/pag... is a link to the original article. And here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glIV5yulw8
Finding letters regarding it in subsequent issues, is left as an exercise for someone else. :)
This article has now made me intensely envious of the Atari users who got actual assembly code source along with their long strings of hexadecimal type-ins, us c64 kids just got pages and pages of incomprehensible hex in everything except for Transactor.
> Curt Cox is a 26-year-old, die-hard Dr. Who fan and Atari fanatic. His family bought an Atari 800 cassette system in 1982. He reads Adams, Asimov and ANALOG Computing. His extensive journalistic and programming talents are often overlooked because of his unnaturally good looks.
It was titled "Send me to heaven"
It challenged you to throw your phone into the air, and used the accelerometer to measure how long and how high you threw it, and created a worldwide leaderboard ... and a great many crashed phones.