Subj : The Game
To   : Joshua Lee
From : Curtis Johnson
Date : Sat Nov 11 2000 01:26 pm

 
 CJ>  (Parenthetical note:  although pre-1970 sf featured computers
 CJ> prominently, there is only the barest handful of mentions of anything
 CJ> corresponding to a PC, much less a PDA!  Sf writers seem to have
 CJ> been slave to mainframe think along with the computer scientists.)

 JL> Defininately - at it's extreme were stories of planet-sized computers.

	Hell, the extreme was an Asimov short-short in which a computer
in hyperspace re-creates the universe.
 
 CJ>  The name-change from Astounding to Analog happened around
 CJ> 1962, along with a change in the magazine's size.

 JL> Bigger or smaller? ('62 was before my time.)
 
	At least twice the total area.

 CJ>  Amazing survived until the 1990s, though in the 1970s there
 CJ> was a period in which it was merely reprinting past stories.
 CJ>  And let us take a moment to bow our heads in silence for
 CJ> Galaxy.

 JL> Hey, Galaxy! That's a name I haven't seen for a while; I used to
 JL> read those in the '70s when I was in elementary school. (I was a
 JL> precocious child - already reading on nearly an adult level; albeit
 JL> without adult sophistication.)
 
	I was a slow slug, I guess--I read them in junior high
in the late '60s.
 
 JL> I still have Dad's Analogs in storage - my move to NYC was
 JL> abrubt and I couldn't take much with me. (A disadvantage of
 JL> having no car.)

	Seriously, you should buy a bunch of sealing baggies
in quantity first chance you get and put one issue in each 
sealed transparent bag.  That's an investment which will repay
itself within a decade.




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