{"id":160,"date":"2006-07-24T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/160"},"modified":"2006-07-25T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T22:20:08","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-students-guide-to-computer-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/160\/retro-scan-of-the-week-students-guide-to-computer-language","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;Student&#8217;s Guide to Computer Language&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/computer_guide_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/computer_guide_small.jpg\" alt=\"Student's Guide to Computer Language\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Here we have a handy BASIC-slanted guide to computer terminology (circa 1983) from an &#8220;educational&#8221; comic book titled <em>Electronics<\/em>, compliments of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioshack.com\" target=\"new\">Tandy-Radio Shack<\/a> (the &#8220;TRS&#8221; in &#8220;TRS-80&#8221;).  Considering the source of this publication, I have a strange feeling that the definition for &#8220;Information Retrieval System&#8221; might be a little suspect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have a handy BASIC-slanted guide to computer terminology (circa 1983) from an &#8220;educational&#8221; comic book titled Electronics, compliments of Tandy-Radio Shack (the &#8220;TRS&#8221; in &#8220;TRS-80&#8221;). Considering the source of this publication, I have a strange feeling that the definition for &#8220;Information Retrieval System&#8221; might be a little suspect&#8230; If you use this image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}