CJ>    I haven't read _Computer Shopper_ in a while, but as of about
 CJ> three years ago it used to have some decent, long-length articles 
 CJ> about a particular bit of technology or software approach.

 RJT> I don't remember the last time I bought one,  except that I do
 RJT> remember that I never quite got the whole way through it.  They were
 RJT> about the size of phone books in those days.   

	These days they're a *lot* thinner, but they're coming with a
CD-ROM that presumably contains the ads.  I haven't bought one in the
new format.  Has anyone else here?


 CJ>    No, I never saw that one.  There did used to be a lot of pretty
 CJ> good computer magazines, and with some of them you could tell that
 CJ> the staff and writers were having a lot of fun.

 RJT> Yep!
 
 CJ> Now the ones that I see (at least on the usual newsstands) are 
 CJ> pitched to consumers (i.e., buy, buy) instead of the enthusiast or 
 CJ> hobbyist who'd be more discerning about quality of hardware, 
 CJ> software, etc. and who'd want to know how it works.

 RJT> That's putting it mildly...

 RJT> The almost explosion of magazines over the past bunch of years has
 RJT> really put me off reading a lot of them.  There was a time once,  when
 RJT> I was so hungry for any kind of technical info that I'd take pretty
 RJT> much what I could get.  This is going back a couple of decades or
 RJT> more,  when there just wasn't that much out there.  Then some people
 RJT> started to perceive this as a market to be milked,  and that's where I
 RJT> got out of buying a lot of it.  It's *really* put me off buying a lot
 RJT> of magazines in recent years. 

	There's booms and busts in any sub-genre of magazines over the
years.  A pity that survivorship through the bust cycle isn't more
directly related to quality.

	OK, this could make for a good thread for everyone to participate
in--what computer mags (electronic or paper) do you read and/or think are
good, and why?

 

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