Comments on: The Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever

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…

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By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:31:40 +0000

You should do a list of the WORST defunct tech magazines of all time. You could start with Time Inc.’s trio of big budget flops: On, Time Digital, Business 2.0, and go from there.

By: Arthur Leyenberger

Arthur Leyenberger — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:37:45 +0000

Harry:
Nice read! As someone who got their start at Creative Computinmg in the early 1980s and went on to write for A.N.A.L.O.G., ST-Log, Compute!, and lastly PC-Laptop, I remember those early days as especially exciting. I read every Creative, BYTE and Pop Electronics issue cover to cover for many years. Thanks for the flash-back.

By: ariel wollinger

ariel wollinger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:18:03 +0000

What? no NEXT GENERATION???

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:32:10 +0000

“Compute! was sold to Bob Guccione’s General Media, thereby becoming a sister publication of Penthouse. If there have been two more utterly different magazines in publishing history, I’m fogetting about them right now.”

Actually, if you think about it, Penthouse and Compute! are very similar magazines. Those type-in program listings are about as close as you can get to soft porn for the teenaged computer nerd.

They served the same purpose, but for different audiences.