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Jim Butterfield

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Frank James Butterfield (14 February 1936 – 29 June 2007) was a Toronto-based computer programmer, author, and television personality known for his work with early microcomputers. [1]

64 relations: Alberta, Assembly language, Atari 8-bit family, Author, Banff Centre, Bits and Bytes, Canada, Celebrity, Centerfold, Chemotherapy, CNCP Telecommunications, Commodore 64, Commodore International, Commodore VIC-20, Compute!, Compute!'s Gazette, Computing Today, Continuity (broadcasting), Edmonton, Edmonton Journal, England, Free software, French language, GEnie, George Brown College, KIM-1, Lethbridge Herald, Machine code, Machine code monitor, Mainframe computer, Microcomputer, Microsoft BASIC, MOS Technology, MOS Technology 6510, Ontario, Open-source software, Personal Computer Museum, Ponoka, Alberta, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Programmer, Public speaking, Quantum Link, Rhinoceros Party, Rhinoceros Party of Canada candidates, 1980 Canadian federal election, Run (magazine), Small System Services, Spell checker, Steve Punter, Teleprinter, The Globe and Mail, ..., The TORPET, The Transactor, Toronto, Toronto PET Users Group, Toronto Star, Trade fair, TVOntario, Type-in program, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, Whitehorse, Yukon, Wired (magazine), World of Commodore, YouTube. Expand index (14 more) »

Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Assembly language

An assembly (or assembler) language, often abbreviated asm, is a low-level programming language, in which there is a very strong (but often not one-to-one) correspondence between the assembly program statements and the architecture's machine code instructions.

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Atari 8-bit family

The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 and manufactured until 1992.

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Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.

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Banff Centre

Banff Centre, formerly known as The Banff Centre (and previously The Banff Centre for Continuing Education), located in Banff, Alberta, was established in 1933 as the Banff School of Drama.

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Bits and Bytes

Bits and Bytes was the name of two Canadian educational television series that taught the basics of how to use a personal computer.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Celebrity

Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc.) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention.

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Centerfold

The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine refers to a gatefolded spread, usually a portrait such as a pin-up or a nude, inserted in the middle of the publication, or to the model featured in the portrait.

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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen.

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CNCP Telecommunications

CNCP Telecommunications (Canadian National-Canadian Pacific Telecommunications) was an electrical telegraph operator and later as a telecom company.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64 or the CBM 64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, January 7–10, 1982).

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Commodore International

Commodore International (or Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel.

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Commodore VIC-20

The VIC-20 (in Germany: VC-20; In Japan: VIC-1001) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines.

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Compute!

Compute!, often stylized as COMPUTE!, was an American home computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994.

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Compute!'s Gazette

Compute!'s Gazette, styled as COMPUTE!'s Gazette, was a computer magazine of the 1980s, directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers.

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Computing Today

Computing Today was a computer magazine published by Argus Specialist Publications, it was printed in the UK from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.

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Continuity (broadcasting)

Continuity or presentation (or station break in the U.S.) is a term used in broadcasting to refer to announcements, messages and graphics played by the broadcaster between specific programmes.

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Edmonton

Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Edmonton Journal

The Edmonton Journal is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Free software

Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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GEnie

GEnie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was an online service created by a General Electric business, GEIS (now GXS), that ran from 1985 through the end of 1999.

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George Brown College

George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public, fully accredited college of applied arts and technology with three full campuses in downtown Toronto, Ontario.

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KIM-1

The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, is a small 6502-based single-board computer developed and produced by MOS Technology, Inc. and launched in 1976.

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Lethbridge Herald

The Lethbridge Herald is the leading daily newspaper in greater Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

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Machine code

Machine code is a computer program written in machine language instructions that can be executed directly by a computer's central processing unit (CPU).

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Machine code monitor

A machine code monitor (machine language monitor) is software that allows a user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on a computer, with options to load and save memory contents from/to secondary storage.

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Mainframe computer

Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing.

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Microcomputer

A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer with a microprocessor as its central processing unit (CPU).

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Microsoft BASIC

Microsoft BASIC is the foundation product of the Microsoft company.

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MOS Technology

MOS Technology, Inc. ("MOS" being short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor), also known as CSG (Commodore Semiconductor Group), was a semiconductor design and fabrication company based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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MOS Technology 6510

6581 SID. The production week/year (WWYY) of each chip is given below its name. The MOS Technology 6510 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by MOS Technology.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

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Personal Computer Museum

The Personal Computer Museum is located in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, located in a former city building that is built from reclaimed bricks from the Brantford Opera House.

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Ponoka, Alberta

Ponoka is a town in central Alberta, Canada.

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Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, previously called Princess Margaret Hospital, is a scientific research centre and a teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, affiliated with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine as part of the University Health Network.

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Programmer

A programmer, developer, dev, coder, or software engineer is a person who creates computer software.

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Public speaking

Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.

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Quantum Link

Quantum Link (or Q-Link) was a U.S. and Canadian online service for Commodore 64 and 128 personal computers that operated starting November 5, 1985.

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Rhinoceros Party

The Rhinoceros Party (French: Parti Rhinocéros) is a Canadian federal-level satirical political party, referred to in English Canada as the Second Rhinoceros Party.

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Rhinoceros Party of Canada candidates, 1980 Canadian federal election

The Rhinoceros Party of Canada fielded several candidates in the 1980 federal election, none of whom were elected.

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Run (magazine)

Run was an American computer magazine published monthly by IDG Communications with its first issue debuting in January 1984.

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Small System Services

Small System Services was an American publisher of computing books and magazines.

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Spell checker

In computing, a spell checker (or spell check) is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly.

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Steve Punter

Steve Punter (born 1958 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Toronto-based programmer and media personality.

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Teleprinter

A teleprinter (teletypewriter, Teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical typewriter that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The TORPET

The TORPET was a Toronto-based computer magazine directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers.

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The Transactor

The Transactor was a computer magazine directed at users of Commodore home computers.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto PET Users Group

The Toronto PET Users Group is one of the world's oldest extant computer user groups, and was among the very largest.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Trade fair

A trade fair (trade show, trade exhibition, or expo) is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of rivals, and examine recent market trends and opportunities.

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TVOntario

TVOntario (often shortened to TVO and stylized on-air as tvo) is a Canadian publicly funded English language educational television station and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Type-in program

A type-in program, type-in listing, or sometimes just type-in, is a listing of source code printed in a computer magazine or book, meant to be entered on the computer's keyboard by the reader and then saved to cassette or disk.

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University of Alberta

The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia.

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Whitehorse, Yukon

Whitehorse is the capital and only city of Yukon, and the largest city in northern Canada.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World of Commodore

World of Commodore is an annual computer expo dedicated to Commodore computers.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Butterfield

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