Dr Dobbs Journal of Computers and Orthadontia

I think I recall the name correctly. Sitting and recalling the medieval days of personal computers, boy were we on the edge. Talking about pre- apple, comodore, tandy and others. We built the bloody things! Most of use used kits to start with. Altair and SWTP are the two I used. Mind you, that was just the start. You only got a box, mother board (call a buss) and a processor card. Altair unit was impressive, you got lots of lights and switches and it impressed the hell out of anyone. But from there on it did "sweet fanny adams". You needed memory, and all sorts of other things. Wanted high teck operation you went looking for an old teletype unit (I was lucky, I got a Texas Instruments thermal printer and added a keyboard to it). Programing was by toggle switches. Every time you turned it off you had to re-enter your program. The along came an interface to a tape recorder. You could actually store programs. You still had to toggle in your "boot" program. Short for Bootstrap, a term used from the old phrase "to bring one up by thier boot straps". Most of the time it worked first time. Often not. We all subscribed to Doctor Dobbs. Every month they had a new program, and lots of tips and history. It was basically a newspaper, but we read everthing then.
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