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- From: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
- Subject: Re: PDware clearing house
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.224101.24544@unlv.edu>
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- Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
- References: <m0mL9wN-00014oC@crash.cts.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 22:41:01 GMT
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- In article <m0mL9wN-00014oC@crash.cts.com> kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan) writes:
- >I was most amazed at the best of A+/Issue, where they reprinted a statement
- >that P.Statt had written when the GS first came out. It was wrong when it was
- >printed. It was wrong when it was reprinted and it is wrong today.
-
- Hmm...what was the nature of this statement?
-
- There was someone else at InCider...I'm a bit foggy on the names of
- the people there, but I believe his last name was Muse...as I recall
- from the issue in which they started Mac coverage, he said a few
- things regarding the II and the Mac that I didn't exactly agree
- with...to put it mildly.
-
- In 1984 or 1985, Nibble started experimenting with combined Mac and II
- coverage; they had a section in each issue called "Nibble Mac." By
- August 1985 (incidentally, my first issue of Nibble), they saw that
- combined coverage wouldn't work--Apple II users at the time didn't
- appreciate that the Mac was encroaching on their magazine. Keep in
- mind that this was back when the Mac was practically a brand-new
- machine, regarded as a toy by most of the people who knew better.
-
- People (and publishers) who fail to learn from the errors of history
- are condemned to repeat those errors.
-
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