Entering Freeware Programs From A Magazine
| Field | Computing |
| Went Obsolete | 1988 |
| Made Obsolete By | Cheap distribution of software on disk |
| Knowledge Assumed | Touch Typing and extreme attention to detail |
| When useful | This was the mechanism for trying out programs |
Also known as a type-in, publications such as Compute! magazine would feature a monthly section that contained the BASIC code or binary data in hexadecimal format for a program which you would then type in to your computer and execute.
This was also very popular when the home computer boom took off in the UK in the early 1980s. There were dozens of magazines on the shelves, all full of blurred program listings that never worked.
