Tag: commodore

  • Slides yield glimpses of Kirschen’s lost “Magic Harp” software

    Slides yield glimpses of Kirschen’s lost “Magic Harp” software

    Yaakov Kirschen and his wife, Sali Ariel, are in the process of downsizing and moving to a new home in Israel. Sali has been hard at work, sifting through decades of collected belongings in preparation. She found a bunch of things related to Kirschen’s 1980s software development firm, LKP Ltd., and sent them to me…

  • The Commodore 64

    Although I was raised on a steady diet of Atari growing up, I did use other machines over the years at school. For example, I remember using a Commodore 64 in kindergarten, and learning to work in LogoWriter on the 64 in third or fourth grade. I came across this wonderful blog post from the…