{"id":20465,"date":"2018-06-11T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=20465"},"modified":"2018-06-18T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T04:18:12","slug":"microkids-december-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/06\/11\/microkids-december-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Microkids (December 1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MicroKids_Issue_01_1983_Dec_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MicroKids_Issue_01_1983_Dec_001-773x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"microkids_issue_01_1983_dec_001\" width=\"773\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"raindrops-press-this\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FMicrokids%2FMicrokids_01_1983-12&amp;twg_show=MicroKids_Issue_01_1983_Dec_001.jpg\">Microkids &#8211; Issue Number 1 &#8211; December 1983<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Microkids was a kids oriented magazine about computers. The content wasn&#8217;t bad but it only lasted a few issues. Too few kids with computers that could also obtain a magazine subscription led to poor circulation numbers I suspect. The premiere issue from December 1983 includes:<\/p>\n<p>Feature Articles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Isaac Asimov on The Dawning of a New Era<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Computer Piracy, Hollywood Style<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Is it a fantasy&#8230;or could it be real?<\/li>\n<li><b>Confessions of a Teenage Computer Whiz<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>An Introduction to Graphics Magic<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The Vid Kid<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; News and views<\/li>\n<li><b>Mastering Super Pac-Man<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Rating the New Games for Christmas<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>10 Great Gift Ideas for Christmas<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>How to Grow an Apple<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Fame&#8217;s&#8221; Lee Curreri<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; King of the keyboards<\/li>\n<li><b>Meet Michael Hyman<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; A demon in 3-D<\/li>\n<li><b>Tune in Tomorrow&#8230;Today<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The Coleco Adam<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Everything you need and more<\/li>\n<li><b>The Spectravideo SV-318<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; A breed apart<\/li>\n<li><b>3&#8230;2&#8230;1&#8230;Blast Off!<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Computers in Space<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Getting out of our sphere<\/li>\n<li><b>Computers in Space<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Flying solo on the Starship Enterprise<\/li>\n<li><b>TI Diary<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; A programming primer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Microkids &#8211; Issue Number 1 &#8211; December 1983 Microkids was a kids oriented magazine about computers. The content wasn&#8217;t bad but it only lasted a few issues. Too few kids with computers that could also obtain a magazine subscription led to poor circulation numbers I suspect. The premiere issue from December 1983 includes: Feature Articles Isaac Asimov on The Dawning of a New Era Computer Piracy, Hollywood Style\u00a0&#8211; Is it a fantasy&#8230;or could it be real? Confessions of a Teenage Computer Whiz An Introduction to Graphics Magic The Vid Kid\u00a0&#8211; News and views Mastering Super Pac-Man Rating the New Games for Christmas 10 Great Gift Ideas for Christmas How to Grow an Apple &#8220;Fame&#8217;s&#8221; Lee Curreri\u00a0&#8211; King of the keyboards Meet Michael Hyman\u00a0&#8211; A demon in 3-D Tune in Tomorrow&#8230;Today The Coleco Adam\u00a0&#8211; Everything you need and more The Spectravideo SV-318\u00a0&#8211; A breed apart 3&#8230;2&#8230;1&#8230;Blast Off! Computers in Space\u00a0&#8211; Getting out of our sphere Computers in Space\u00a0&#8211; Flying solo on the Starship Enterprise TI Diary\u00a0&#8211; A programming primer &#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[194,196,225,229,237,471,473,2362],"class_list":["post-20465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-apple","tag-apple-ii","tag-atari","tag-atari-400","tag-atari-800","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}