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Speaking as somebody born in 1986, PC Magazine and Ziff Davis ignited my interest in software and computers as a child. It will always have a special place in
by jasonjei 13y ago
Speaking as somebody born in 1986, PC Magazine and Ziff Davis ignited my interest in software and computers as a child.
It will always have a special place in my heart, even as a relic of print media (Ars Technica and AnandTech have replaced or obsoleted many aspects of the magazine even in its ironic non-computer print death throes of trying to modernize to the Web).
- larrys 13y agoSlim pickings reading wise the decade your were born for computers. I had to drive up to the Princeton U. Bookstore (about 40 miles away) in order to get a book on Unix or C. The year before you were born I had a machine in which 4mb of memory (in 80's dollars) was something like $4000. That was the cost of the extra memory (the machine was perhaps 35k in 80's dollars approx.) The hard drive was 70mb (Unix multiuser system). Separately you missed out on the era of hiding Playboy under the bed from mom.