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PC World, 1983-2013
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Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#12Personally, 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.
The closure of Byte magazine is a rather sorry tale:
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#13Personally, the only computer magazine I feel sad about not being in print is Byte. I loved that magazine.
Dr. Dobb's Journal was another great magazine.
I still enjoy printed material. I subscribe to 3 magazines (which rotate since I do not have time for more) and purchase my non-techie books solely in print.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#14Well, from IDG, I prefered to read ComputerWorld anyway.
It's apparently for IT managers (which I am not), but it at least contains some information, unlike PC World's "top 10 shareware applications of the month" and "let's test this random hardware and put the results in a big table".
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#15Speaking as somebody born in 1986, PC Magazine and Ziff Davis ignited my interest in software and computers as a child.
It will always have a special place in my heart, even as a relic of print media (Ars Technica and AnandTech have replaced or obsoleted many aspects of the magazine even in its ironic non-computer print death throes of trying to modernize to the Web).
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#16Personally, 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.
Compute was awesome. Probably the only magazine that actually made me a better programmer.
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#17Personally, the only computer magazine I feel sad about not being in print is Byte. I loved that magazine.
Byte was amazing. In the mid-80s I was into the Atari ST platform, and I probably have in storage their "home computing" issue that had an awesome top-down view of the ST [1].
[1] http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-03/1986_03_BYTE...
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#18Yes, but the BIG question is: with the move to 'digital', are they going make available all those precious back issues in electronic format?
Years back, I eagerly ordered the Byte CDROM archive from DrDobbs. My expectations were dashed: no glossy pdfs, nor even illustrations or ads; the articles were just text files. With those historical mags, along with the technical content, I find context very important...
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#19Personally, 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.
compute was awesome ..and where i got my start programming
Re: PC World, 1983-2013
#20Personally, 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.
Take a look here: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/