PC World, 1983-2013
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PC World, 1983-2013
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Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#2Personally, the only computer magazine I feel sad about not being in print is Byte. I loved that magazine.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#3As per all magazines, it declined to 10% content and 90% advertising that you had to pay a large chunk of cash for. Good riddance to them all.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#4>PCW and its peer publications—PCMag, but also BYTE, Computer Shopper, and in 1991, a fresh-faced CompuServe service dubbed ZDNet—helped bring a niche interest into the mainstream.
I have fond memories of BYTE and Computer Shopper. I repeatedly pored over the same random issue for Computer Shopper for years before I owned a PC.
More recently, I was sad to see SysAdmin go.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#5Personally, the only computer magazine I feel sad about not being in print is Byte. I loved that magazine.
I didn't discover Byte until the 1990s, in college. I often sat in the library reading back issues. When I finally subscribed to the magazine myself, I only received a few months' worth before they folded up shop! Great memories nevertheless.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#6Personally, the only computer magazine I feel sad about not being in print is Byte. I loved that magazine.
I miss Creative Computing, too. It was the philosophy to Byte's technical vision.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#7The magazine's title always seemed like an omen that death was inevitable.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#8Personally, the only computer magazine I feel sad about not being in print is Byte. I loved that magazine.
Byte was one of the clear contenders for the best (if not the best) general computer magazine - but as an avid commodore 64 hacker back in 1982-1983, Compute!, with it's monthly updates on various things like undocumented 6510 opcodes, and their interesting assembly programs that we typed in by hand (mostly consisting of a bunch of data/poke statements, will always hold a warm place in my heart.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#9As per all magazines, it declined to 10% content and 90% advertising that you had to pay a large chunk of cash for. Good riddance to them all.
I seem to remember it being mostly advertising even in the early 90s.
My thought on the headline was "and nothing of value was lost", but thats perhaps unfair since the last time I looked in one was probably 20 years ago.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#10Personally, the only computer magazine I feel sad about not being in print is Byte. I loved that magazine.
For me it was Micro Cornucopia.