{"id":1403,"date":"2017-07-06T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T20:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2017-07-06T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T20:47:09","slug":"retro-scan-the-hayden-sargon-hamburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1403\/retro-scan-the-hayden-sargon-hamburger","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> The Hayden Sargon Hamburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/hayden_hamburger_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/hayden_hamburger_small.jpg\" alt=\"Hayden Book Company Computer Program Tapes Software Sargon Game Playing with BASIC How to Build a Computer-Controlled Robot The First Book of KIM General Math Complex and Matrix Math Introductory Engineering Math advertisement scan - 1979\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Starving for Software? Eat a tapeburger<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I find few things less appetizing than a black and white hamburger.  (Maybe one with a computer tape on top of it.)<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not here to eat this advertisement for Hayden Book Company&#8217;s 1979 computer tape offerings.  We&#8217;re here to look at it.<\/p>\n<p>I know very little about Hayden itself other than that it originated as a New Jersey-based book publisher and later transitioned into selling software on disk and tape as well (as &#8220;Hayden Software&#8221;).  That stands in contrast to what I <em>think<\/em> was the firm&#8217;s first approach to publishing software &#8212; in paper books full of source code.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that this might be the first-ever advertisement for what was originally called &#8220;<em>Sargon: A Computer Chess Program<\/em>&#8220;, a pioneering chess game and engine for personal computers that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sargon_(chess)\">debuted at the 1978 West Coast Computer Faire<\/a>.  I recall my brother playing <em>Sargon II<\/em> for the Atari 800 and <em>Sargon III<\/em> on the IBM PC, and I had a copy of <em>Sargon II<\/em> for the Apple II.  It was a stalwart, well-respected chess series for many years.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE Magazine, February 1979, p.143 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the best computer chess game you&#8217;ve ever played?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starving for Software? Eat a tapeburger For some reason, I find few things less appetizing than a black and white hamburger. (Maybe one with a computer tape on top of it.) But we&#8217;re not here to eat this advertisement for Hayden Book Company&#8217;s 1979 computer tape offerings. We&#8217;re here to look at it. I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,27,26,9,10],"tags":[284,150,106,1508,1509,1503,1510,1507,1504,1505,1506],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-284","tag-advertisement","tag-byte-magazine","tag-computer-tapes","tag-data-tapes","tag-hayden-software","tag-kim-1","tag-new-jersey","tag-sargon","tag-sargon-ii","tag-sargon-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}