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PC Pro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Pro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Pro) is a UK computing publication and more importantly a Dennis publication that ha
by Saad_M 12y ago
PC Pro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Pro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Pro) is a UK computing publication and more importantly a Dennis publication that had a big impact when I read it during formative years as a teenager. For me it had big influence on my life and got me interested in computing professionally and academically. I don't know if Felix Dennis had a direct hand in the formation of PC Pro, but I am grateful that he did set up a publication house that allowed something like PC pro to exist.
- cstross 12y agoPC Pro was more aimed at the PC/Windows using demographic than (earlier) sister magazine Computer Shopper -- whose Linux/open source column I wrote for a bit over five years in the late 90s/early 00s. Now that was the last hurrah of the old skool British personal computing press ...! (Complete with columns on the Amiga, ST, and BBC platforms and intros to assembler programming long after every other mag in the field had turned into yet another boring infomercial for Microsoft Office.) Sigh. Brings back memories.
- mattl 12y agoYour column was hugely important for me growing up in the UK where I'd go for weeks or even months without internet access. Being able to stay up to date with free software stuff was a big deal.