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Article #621127Re: Magazines
From: Andy Leighton
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:27
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:27
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On 2 Mar 2018 11:21:40 GMT, 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 " I think he got 9 months or something, but all 3 of the OZ defendants were found innocent on appeal and only spent a couple of weeks in jail. > 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. Well there were other publications in between. > 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. Although he kept in publishing until the end. -- Andy Leighton => an...@azaal.plus.com "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" - Douglas Adams
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