{"id":6120,"date":"1987-10-01T15:40:15","date_gmt":"1987-10-01T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2016-02-14T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T20:43:59","slug":"one-of-the-first-time-i-was-published-computer-magazine-micropendium-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/?p=6120","title":{"rendered":"One of the first times I was published &#8212; Computer Magazine MICROpendium (1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAY back in the day (1987) I got published in a computer magazine for the first time. MICRopendium was the official monthly magazine for the AWESOME TI-99-4\/a and its not-at-all awesome successor, the Myarc Geneve. I taught myself to code on the TI-99-4\/a and wrote EVERY college paper on that computer using the TI-Writer Word Processor. LOVED that computer. Anyway, someone had asked if there was a way to use the spell-checking program database on the built in RAM disk (512KB) &#8212; you read that right, not MB, KB &#8212; and GeekBoy (that would be me) had the solution. If it helps, reading it now, it confuses me as well, but it&#8217;s one of the first time I was &#8220;published!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6121\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m1-803x1024.jpg\" alt=\"m1\" width=\"437\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m1-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m1-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m1-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m1.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m2.jpg\" alt=\"m2\" width=\"516\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m2.jpg 1700w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m2-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m2-768x954.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m2-824x1024.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m3.jpg\" alt=\"m3\" width=\"522\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m3.jpg 1665w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m3-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m3-768x966.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m3-814x1024.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m4.jpg\" alt=\"m4\" width=\"525\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m4.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m4-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m5.jpg\" alt=\"m5\" width=\"573\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m5.jpg 573w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/m5-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAY back in the day (1987) I got published in a computer magazine for the first time. MICRopendium was the official monthly magazine for the AWESOME TI-99-4\/a and its not-at-all awesome successor, the Myarc Geneve. I taught myself to code on the TI-99-4\/a and wrote EVERY college paper on that computer using the TI-Writer Word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comptech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}