Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) (02/08/91)
I have a friend who publishes a hobbyist magazine, and we were discussing
new ventures, and I mentioned that there might be a market for a DEC
related mag.
A bit of base info, first. The current mag is called The Computer Journal,
and supports the CP/M - ZCPR community (and you thought we all died 10
years ago:-). The mag is written by the readers for the readers, and includes
pratical experience content. There is not much advertising in it, but there
those are again related to the topic at hand.
My proprosal is this: would anyone see the advantages for a similar DEC
mag? Rough ideas follow.
The mag (or journal) would be broken up into various departments. One such
would be for VAX/VMS, another for RSX-11, RT-11, RSTS, etc. People who
are interested in DEC equipment as a hobby would right useful articals
that users could apply to their hobby.
Current mags, including DEC Professional, and Digital News dont quite
fit the bill. Digital News is mostly concerned with new products, and
related to the business world. The DEC Pro mag started out as above, but
also swung into different avenues of interest. I personally dont subscribe
to VAX Pro, but would imagine it the same.
The new mag would be aimed at people who collect VAX and PDP-[11|8],
and micros, such as the Pro-300 series and the DECmates [II|III].
Would any of you DEC hobbyists subscribe to such a rag, and would any
of you DEC used equipment resellers support the rag?
If you think this sounds like a good idea, please leave me mail, and
I will keep in contact with my friend. If you dont think its a good
idea, send me mail also, and tell me why. Personally, I think that
such a mag would be a good idea. I see others posting to
alt.folklore.computers who talk about the stuff they own (re: TU56
restoration, etc!)
Billy D'Augustine
Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.commacrakis@gr.osf.org (Stavros Macrakis) (02/08/91)
In article <39022@cup.portal.com> Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) writes:
A bit of base info, first. The current mag is called The Computer Journal,
and supports the CP/M - ZCPR community (and you thought we all died 10
years ago:-)....
!! The Computer Journal is also the name of the official journal of
the British Computer (or Computing?) Society. It has been around for
a very long time, and has significant circulation in Europe and North
America.