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Card cover stapled. Has a scratch on front cover, rub markings and dog ear to top right front, edge wear. Indentation bottom right quarter of front cover, its a hard knock which has marked pages 1-20. Interface Publications was born in 1980 when Australian journalist, living in the United Kingdom, Tim Hartnell started the ZX80 User's Club and published "Making the Most of Your Sinclair ZX80″ very quickly the user group had 3000 and the book was a best seller.Hartnell returned to Australia in 1984 and with Robert Young developed mail-order and custom-written software. This was a pivot for the business which had previously focused on "how to use computer" books to "what to do with a computer". This publication is an early example of computer program distribution which today would be called an App Store.

144 pages. Good condition. No markings. Some discolouration to outside edges of cover. This handbook is a compendium of 3 Usborne titles, Understanding the Micro, Computer Programming, Computer Space Games. There are 13 BASIC programs in the Computer Space Games section.Usborne Publishing had captured a large part of the children's educational book market in the United Kingdom and Australia and published a series of colourful, fully illustrated, instructional books as BASIC computing was being introduced to school curriculums. Many of the books have program listings for a variety of games and puzzles, BASIC conversion charts and glossaries of micro computing jargon. The BASIC programs were designed to run on BBC, ZX Spectrum, ZX81, VIC 20, Pet, Apple, and TRS-80.

48 pages. Good condition. Unmarked copy. Slight discolouration to outside edges of cover. As the cover blurb notes "...lots of programs and things to do."Usborne Publishing had captured a large part of the children's educational book market in the United Kingdom and Australia and published a series of colourful, fully illustrated, instructional books as BASIC computing was being introduced to school curriculums. Many of the books have program listings for a variety of games and puzzles, BASIC conversion charts and glossaries of micro computing jargon. The BASIC programs were designed to run on BBC, ZX Spectrum, ZX81, VIC 20, Pet, Apple, and TRS-80.

48 pages. Good condition. Unmarked copy. Slight discolouration to outside edges of cover. Contains programs, puzzles, tricks with loops.Usborne Publishing had captured a large part of the children's educational book market in the United Kingdom and Australia and published a series of colourful, fully illustrated, instructional books as BASIC computing was being introduced to school curriculums. Many of the books have program listings for a variety of games and puzzles, BASIC conversion charts and glossaries of micro computing jargon. The BASIC programs were designed to run on BBC, ZX Spectrum, ZX81, VIC 20, Pet, Apple, and TRS-80.

48 pages. Good condition. Unmarked copy. Slight discolouration to outside edges of cover. Contains code writing exercises, loop puzzles. a guide to BASIC.Usborne Publishing had captured a large part of the children's educational book market in the United Kingdom and Australia and published a series of colourful, fully illustrated, instructional books as BASIC computing was being introduced to school curriculums. Many of the books have program listings for a variety of games and puzzles, BASIC conversion charts and glossaries of micro computing jargon. The BASIC programs were designed to run on BBC, ZX Spectrum, ZX81, VIC 20, Pet, Apple, and TRS-80.

48 pages. Good condition. Unmarked copy. Slight discolouration to outside edges of cover. As the cover blurb says "With lots of programs and subroutines".

48 pages. Good condition. Unmarked copy. Slight discolouration to outside edges of cover. This title contains BASIC computer puzzle programs.Usborne Publishing had captured a large part of the children's educational book market in the United Kingdom and Australia and published a series of colourful, fully illustrated, instructional books as BASIC computing was being introduced to school curriculums. Many of the books have program listings for a variety of games and puzzles, BASIC conversion charts and glossaries of micro computing jargon. The BASIC programs were designed to run on BBC, ZX Spectrum, ZX81, VIC 20, Pet, Apple, and TRS-80.

48 pages. Good condition. Unmarked copy. Slight discolouration to outside edges of cover. This title contains a single BASIC computer program but is an excellent reference tool that gives a great illustrated overview of electronic games from the early 1980's. Replete with registered trademarks of companies that had mostly gone broke by the late 1980's.Usborne Publishing had captured a large part of the children's educational book market in the United Kingdom and Australia and published a series of colourful, fully illustrated, instructional books as BASIC computing was being introduced to school curriculums. Many of the books have program listings for a variety of games and puzzles, BASIC conversion charts and glossaries of micro computing jargon. The BASIC programs were designed to run on BBC, ZX Spectrum, ZX81, VIC 20, Pet, Apple, and TRS-80.