Comments on: The Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:00:54 +0000

For tech only, ROBOT magazine had construction information and was great for control systems, as it was still new to most of the computing world and single board computers were just starting.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:55:53 +0000

Yes, Wayne Green had '73 magazone (ham operators), then with his wife started Byte. They brought on Carl Helmers to run Byte, and Wayne lost it in an ugly divorce to his wife.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:53:09 +0000

Dr Dobb's Journal of Computing Orthodona, subtitled Running Light without Overbyte
I could have it a bit wrong. … Somwhere I still have the first couple of issues!

By: card

card — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:59:03 +0000

I remember reading the Byte editorial when Windows 3.0 was launched. They had thoroughly tested the new product, and were convinced that it would completely revolutionise the PC environment.

By: Andrew Binstock

Andrew Binstock — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:00:08 +0000

@Brian Knoblauch: The magazine you’re referring to was the C User’s Journal, published in Kansas by what was originally the C Users’ Group.

The C Gazette was a different magazine, of which I was the editor. It ran from 1986 to 1992 and was solely focused on C and C++ and was code-intensive.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:07:04 +0000

What about Electronic Entertainment? And, to be fair, its competitors CD-ROM Today and Multimedia World?

Just ‘cuz CD-ROMs didn’t change the world the way we thought they would (thank you very much, Mr. Internet), it was a glorious moment when the technology and entertainment worlds first got together.

By: Lee Pappas

Lee Pappas — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:46:48 +0000

Some of your picks were right on (Creative Computing, Compute!, Byte, MacUser). Many were way off the mark (80/Microcomputing – YUCK!, Computer Gaming World – always a boring magazine)

You don’t have A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing? The magazine still has websites devoted to it, continues to be the subject of a fair amount of internet traffic, and after many years a huge cult following.

But thanks for remembering some of the greats.

-LHP

By: Michael Davis

Michael Davis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:22:58 +0000

I loved Creative Computing. There were ads by a software company called Beagle Brothers that had 3-line Basic programs that did amazing tricks on the Apple II.

By: James

James — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:05:20 +0000

What about RAINBOW, the magazine for the Tandy Color Computer?

Computer Shopper is indeed still around, but I don’t think for long. It really died when Stan Veit sold it to (you guessed it) Ziff-Davis, which purged it of any non-IBM PC content. What pundits it had left have vanished, and in the days of the Web, no dead-tree publication can keep up on ads.

By: Fred Brock

Fred Brock — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:03:44 +0000

I’ll chime in with jhota and Lun Esex with kudos for MacWeek. Getting on their comp list was the holy grail in my office. It was a weekly blast of MacWorld Expo and, like my back issues of MacWorld, MacUser and Byte, it’s just too hard to simply pitch them into the recycle bin…