Agreed... the date is highly constrained to the introduction of the 6502 and the start of MICRO! :)

On 6/15/2021 4:08 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I remember maybe 10 years ago figuring out the connection between the typed
copier paper version and the formally-published MICRO mags.  I will see
what notes I have, maybe I wrote something about it someplace, but IIRC
Bill Sudbrink has these.  They have "6502" written in pen.  I suppose 1976
given the 650a came out in late 75 (?), but the 6502 was not really popular
until the JOLT/Apple I/Kim 1 of 1976.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 4:00 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

Dates on these possible "pre micro" pieces?
On 6/15/2021 3:14 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

They're totally homebrew with hand-written and typed pages, printed on a
copier.  I think Bill Sudbrink has them.    The logo is hand-drawn.
  I kind of assumed these were already on the web but I did not find any
archives.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 9:36 AM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:


Less formally published items must be interesting!  It would be good to
confirm.
What dates?  Rare stuff!
Similarly good reading is from the Dr Dobs early stuff, I recommend
getting ahold of the
1976 "best of" volume, and maybe the next three.  Fun reading what people
were thinking
back then.
On 6/14/2021 2:11 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

I should add MICRO is also known as Micro "the 6502 Journal".  I also have
a run of less formally-published 6502 journals which I assume was what
MICRO evolved from.  I'd have to confirm that.
BIll

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 2:06 PM Bill Degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> <billdegnan@gmail.com> <billdegnan@gmail.com> <billdegnan@gmail.com> wrote:


If anyone is interested and it's not already published WWW-wise, I scanned
the "MICRO index by system" published by MICRO magazine, which ran from
1977 to 1980 or 1981.  I found the index within a stack of MICRO magazines
I have been moving around.

This is useful to have because MICRO had a lot of useful technical info
relating to the 6502-based micros of the time period.  It's hard to search
the web for "micro index" - one just gets a lot of nasdaq stock stuff.
I did not check 6502 or other archive sites, this may already be listed
there, but here it is againhttps://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=783

Bill