The Mad Magazine Basic Computer Program(meatfighter.com) The cover of MAD magazine No. 258 from October 1985 announces a “special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program”. Take careful note of the image displayed on the computer monitor.
FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine(goto10retro.com) One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was an issue of FaSTer disk magazine. I had thought that it was a sealed copy, but although it was still in its shrink-wrap, it was not actually sealed.
The Worst Magazine in America(currentaffairs.org) Regular Current Affairs readers know that I have a tendency to make grumbling remarks about a magazine called The Atlantic. In fact, in our print edition we recently awarded The Atlantic a prize for “Worst Magazine In America.”
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Make: Magazine and Maker faire open a community round(make.co) I once explained to a friend that I was most proud that Make: magazine and Maker Faire had created a community of makers — how makers found each other through the magazine and events and how an even larger public could now find them.
Micro: The magazine for TRS-80 owners(homeip.net) It’s September, and that means Septandy. That makes today as good of a day as any to talk about 80 Microcomputing (later shortened to 80 Micro), one of the most successful of the early computer magazines. It also featured an innovation that changed the direction of the industry for good.
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The Magazine for Mercenaries Enters Polite Society(newyorker.com) In the early nineteen-eighties, Susan Katz Keating was living in California, working as a freelance journalist with a side gig waiting tables. On a newsstand, she came across _Soldier of Fortune_, a monthly magazine infamous for its gonzo war reporting and its gun-for-hire classified ads. “I wanted to write about mercenaries,” she recalled recently. So she placed an advertisement in the publication. “You paid by the word, and I was quite young and didn’t have any money. The ad said, ‘Are you a mercenary? Contact S. Katz.’ And then I gave my home address.”