[gary]

Hi Barry,

Great to hear of your first exposure to computers back at AWA and
the story of the friend out of NSC in Scotland who have you the SC/MP to tinker with.

In the 70's and 80's, the premier enthusiast's publication at the time was Byte magazine.
I still have a collection of them and I just went and pulled a couple of copies out of
a storage box dated late 1977 and scanned a few sample pages.

One of the articles that appeared in the Nov 1977 edition was on how to write a pseudo
16-bit instruction set for the 8-bit 6502, a processor manufactured by MOS
Technology and which architecturally was quite similar to the Motorola 6800.
The article is written by some guy called Stephen Wozniak out of a little company
in Cupertino California called Apple Computer.

Woz's Apple I and Apple II both used the 6502 and I scanned a double page
advertisement for the Apple II which appeared in Byte and have included it below.

Mai and I have registered and are definitely coming to Ilford.
See you up at the house and looking forward to catching up.
Hoping there might be something to see on the radio astronomy project perhaps?