# Interface Age

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Computer magazine published between August 1976 and September 1984

The May 1977 issue featured a Floppy ROM containing a version of Tiny BASIC for the 6800.

***Interface Age***, "published for the home computerist", was a [computer magazine](/source/Computer_magazine) aimed at the early [microcomputer](/source/Microcomputer) and [home computer](/source/Home_computer) market. Its first issue was published in August 1976 and the last one in September 1984. It had a technical focus for most of its print run.

The magazine started as the newsletter of the Southern California Computer Society, ***SCCS Interface***, which was first published in December 1975. Its publisher, Robert S. Jones, offered to turn it into a professionally produced magazine and established an agreement with the SCCS in which the SCCS would provide a substantial part of the content of the magazine, while Jones would bear the costs of publishing and marketing, with the SCCS sharing in the profits. However, SCCS failed to produce a necessary flow of content, with Jones eventually providing all of the content through his own writers and columnists. Jones ended all connection with the SCCS, and the magazine became simply *Interface Age*. Its first issue under that name was released as Volume 1, issue 9, continuing its numbering from the original publication.

Like many early personal computer magazines, *Interface Age* often contained type-in programs written in [BASIC](/source/BASIC) that could be used on most platforms of the era. It was perhaps best known for its use of "Floppy ROM"s, very thin [vinyl record](/source/Phonograph_record), known as "sound sheets" containing programs encoded in the [Kansas City standard](/source/Kansas_City_standard) format. One of these included an implementation of a [Tiny BASIC](/source/Tiny_BASIC) [interpreter](/source/BASIC_interpreter).

## References

- ["Interface Age"](https://www.vintage-computer.com/publications.php?interfaceage).

- ["Interface Age"](http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102661076). *Computer History Museum*.

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