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Re: Magazines

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From: ma...
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:43
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On 2018-03-03, Andy Leighton <an...@azaal.plus.com> wrote:
> 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.

I think that he published VIZ or somethng like that. Seemed a fun
guy. Is he alive or dead, do you know?.

>
>> 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. 
>


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