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Re: Magazines

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From: maus
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:38
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On 2018-03-02, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> maus <ma...@mail.com> wrote:
>> Writing of magazines, back then, the UK market had a magazine called
>>  "Computer Shopper", NOT the US one, the UK one was developed by a man 
>> called "* Dennis", whose previous point of interest was as have being
>>  prosecuted for being associated with a porn charge. As far as I remember,
>> the judge more or less let him off, as he thought that Mr. D. was of
>> "Low intelligence "
>> 
>> He next produced the above magazine, which was first printed on very
>> low quality paper, but had great articles about every sort of computer,
>> including the LYNX. As the years passed, the quality of the paper went
>>  up, but the content collapsed to the point where it was hard to find 
>> actual articles among the dross. By that time, Mr. Dennis was gone with
>>  lotsofcash.
>> 
>> 
>> Now we have Facebook.. "O tempo, o mores". I must check if there are any
>> computer magazines now.
>> 
>
> Probably not. Because we have stuff like Facebook notbthat many people read
> anymore!
>

As many really do as ever. I read Facebook every day, to see what my
less computer literate relations have to say. (and one very literate one)..
Its really a heap of *.


-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
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