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From: Bob Eager
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:11

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On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:21:40 +0000, maus 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 "

Ah yes. The notorious Felix Dennis.

Computer Shopper was indeed good to start with. As was Personal Computer 
World; that got fatter and fatter with more and more adverts and Wintel.

I fitted a special large leterbox for PCW.

-- 
Using UNIX since v6 (1975)...

Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
 http://www.mirrorservice.org

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