[net.micro.6809] An Open Letter To Ziff-Davis.

hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull) (11/21/84)

> [Flame on!  A moment of respectful silence for Microsystems, please.]
> 
> (No offense meant to PC Tech Journal subscribers -- how would you like it if
>  your PC magazine was suddenly switched to "Hot CoCo" or something of similar
>  interest to you!)
As it turns out, I'd like it just fine.  Good ol' Ziff-Davis seems to have
gotten to my daughter's subscription to The Color Computer magazine as well...
So what did they substitute?  Creative Computing!!!  '&%$#"!`{}*+<>@[]:;/
OOOOOKKKKK.  Looks like the two copies of CC are going into a brown paper
wrapper to be sent by Registered Mail to Ziff-Daviepoo & Co. with YADFAR...
(Yet Another Demand For A Refund).
								Howard Hull
        {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | harpo!seismo } !hao!hull

abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) (11/23/84)

> 
> > [Flame on!  A moment of respectful silence for Microsystems, please.]

This is, indeed, not the first time Ziff-Davis has engaged in so
predatory a business practice.  If yoiu've been around for a while, you
may recall SPACE AERONAUTICS, a professional journal covering the latest
in aerospace.  Ziff-Davis purchased the magazine, issued glowing reports
about what wonderful plans they had for it, then swiftly discontinued
it.

The lesson for us all is to have VERY LONG MEMORIES!

Brint

(301) 278-6883    AV:  283-6883     FTS: 939-6883

  Dr Brinton Cooper
  U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
  Attn: AMXBR-SECAD (Cooper)
  Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md  21005

 ARPA:  abc@brl.arpa
 UUCP:  ...{decvax,cbosgd}!brl-bmd!abc