[geeks] retro magazine fun (SysAdmin)

[Kevin]

Very true, i keep expecting it to go down to a pamphlet any day
now.

I do miss Byte from 1994 and below.  I use to have a ton of old
computer mags from the very early Apple II days.  Hurricane
Andrew took care of those though.

/KRM

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:40:38 -0600
Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:55:15PM -0800, Francisco Javier
> Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> > I remember some good issues, but then it became a
> > windowcentric magazine with more ads than content, and I
> > always get annoyed when I open any magazine and a milliard of
> > cut outs fall from it. If I wanted to read PC advertisements
> > I could just pick my PCShoppers for free of the corner
> > bookstore. I believe that after the mid 90's the magazine
> > pretty much went to the crapper (another victim of Wintel? :)
> > )
> 
> Sad thing is, every month, Sys Admin magazine gets thinner and
> thinner, and Linux Journal gets thicker.. but then, LJ is
> starting to be more "techy" and less "LINUX UBER ALLES".
> 
> Of course, I remember the days when you could seriously hurt
> someone by hitting them with a rolled-up Computer Shopper.  It
> still exists, but is micro-thin (killed off mostly by online
> purchasing).
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> bill bradford
> austin texas
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