06-VI-1983.

Assuming this is the day when it must have hit the kiosks... the 84th issue of Sirius magazine (not Sirijus!, the engrbian language was gaining traction already), with its Yu Sirius batch of SF stories by domestic authors, appeared, with a story of mine in it. That's actually my only story that I consider readable that I wrote on paper. I tried two more, on that old Olivia typewriter, but junked them - didn't have the idea, really. All the others, less than two dozen total (but they were getting longer!) were done on a keyboard.

Some time this winter I finally got around to retyping the one I wrote while in the vojska, and then sent it to Sirius.

The stuff I tried to write later didn't fare so well. Except when I was writing code... and then the two often mixed. My first editor was zx spectrum Basic - I wrote text in the comments. Later managed to extract that through an emulator and a dongle, so it wasn't all lost. Some, OTOH, I managed to print.

Well, wasn't lost then, but got lost later when I failed to keep copying that from one set of floppies to the next, or from one disk to the next - the nineties were a bit of a disaster in archiving. Still, between the surviving copies and the printed ones, the opus turned out to be quite complete. It's other stuff that I had that's missing.


Mentions: engrbian, SF stories, vojska, ZX Spectrum, in serbian

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