Curtis Johnson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 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.

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

 RJT> Speaking of magazines,  did you ever read Micro-Cornucopia?  I have
 RJT> a pretty good collection of those,  watched it go from dealing with
 RJT> cp/m boxes to pc clone hardware,  and to a bit of a slick format.
 RJT> Then it folded.  And it appeared that it folded by choice,  of the
 RJT> guy who was running it,  rather than selling out to somebody,  which
 RJT> apparently was being proposed...

 RJT> I was rather disappointed that it wasn't going to be around any more, 
 RJT> but in retrospect I can see where he made the better choice. 

 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.

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.

That's putting it mildly...

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

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