[HN Gopher] PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as To...
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PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David
Bunnell
Author : taylorbuley
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-01-26 18:37 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (technologizer.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (technologizer.com)
| adamrezich wrote:
| is there any place on the web where one can peruse PC Magazine
| issues from the 90s? I was looking for one last night and
| couldn't find anything like it.
| codetrotter wrote:
| Here are a couple
|
| https://archive.org/details/pc-magazine-best-products-of-199...
|
| https://archive.org/details/pcmagazine-v13n17
|
| Probably more of them too, there on archive.org
| alexitosrv wrote:
| Wonderful! Thanks a lot for the link! Oh man, reading that
| end of year 1994 issue brings out a lot of memories. An IBM
| Thinkpad 755CD cost $7600 USD!!! and those advertisements for
| everything else: the design language, the words, the double
| entendre, those were the times.
| ghaff wrote:
| Per other comment, there are a fair number of computer magazine
| issues from that era on the Internet Archive. But it's mostly
| very incomplete if you're looking for something specific.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| These are freely available via Google Books, and also
| searchable:
| https://books.google.com/books/about/PC_Mag.html?id=w_OhaFDe...
| ghaff wrote:
| Some are. Per my other comment, pretty incomplete--though
| welcome even as such.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| I counted _215_ issues online for the 90s decade. What is
| missing?
| ghaff wrote:
| So as a weekly...
|
| Not a criticism, but most of these sources are not
| comprehensive.
|
| [I'm wrong in the case of PC Mag.]
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| PC Mag was never weekly. Its all there.
| ghaff wrote:
| My bad. I remembered it as a weekly.
|
| Still, many of the mags of the era are still incompletely
| archived if at all.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| "PC Magazine uses Google Books as the official archive of
| its 27 years as a print publication."
|
| https://www.wikiwand.com/en/PCMag#Early_transition_to_squ
| are...
| ghaff wrote:
| Sorta off-topic but...
|
| This is part of that window in time and place that isn't Internet
| history but isn't the part of the early Web on either. BBSs/PC
| culture, minicomputers, and various other things exist as sort of
| a memory hole about which there is relatively extant
| documentation outside of some memories that may not have been
| written down at some point. Some things from that era, anything
| related to Apple, big companies that survived (IBM, HP) made it
| through to the present day but much did not.
| themerone wrote:
| Plenty of web stuff gets lost to the sands of time.
| ghaff wrote:
| Plenty of everything gets lost to the sands of time--some
| fortuitously--but there are segments in a given era that got
| lost far more.
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