<story><title>The first appearance of a real computer in a comic book</title><url>http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/computerComics/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jim_lawless</author><text>Some comics used to try to pass off source code ... often BASIC ... as programs on the screens of the computers in the story&amp;#x27;s.  I had seen a couple of these instances in Jim Starlin&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Dreadstar&amp;quot; comic.  One of them was a printer dump routine from 80 Micro magazine for a TRS-80 that included the original author&amp;#x27;s contact info on the screen:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jiml.us&amp;#x2F;i&amp;#x2F;dreadstar-basic.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jiml.us&amp;#x2F;i&amp;#x2F;dreadstar-basic.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The first appearance of a real computer in a comic book</title><url>http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/computerComics/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robviren</author><text>A machine that we can ask any question and get an answer, aghast! Fun to realize what was top level science fiction at the time is now our mundane daily life</text></comment>