[Coco] [Color Computer] More on Hot Coco scans

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Neil Morrison wrote:
>Ziff killed Electronics World, one of the great magazines for
>technicians. That was a sad day.
>
>Neil
>
Ziff-Davis runs the official post graduate course in how to kill a useful, 
enhanced peoples knowledge, magazine.  They see something that looks as if it 
could make lots of money cuz its got a positive balance sheet now, then apply 
their management theories, people see the diff and don't renew, so they kill 
it.  The past can be traced at ZD by the dead magazines laying in the trail 
of time.

That is as close to discussing their pedigree as I will get on a family 
list...

Another rag that I mess dearly is McGraw-Hills, 'Electronics'.  I have about a 
10 year collection of that which I left to Dave when I gave him my old, now 
ragged red CE's chair & office at the tv station with the advisory that if he 
had time to read them all, he would have far better than a post doc in 
Electronics education when he was done.  They used to run contests to see who 
could write (in assembly of course) the fastest, smallest, integer multiply 
and divide routines for the current crop of cpu's, publishing the winners.
As the fav cpu then was a Z-80, I used them both to advantage in a automatic 
transmitter control I wrote back in '81-'82 for KSUE-FM.  Now of course we 
look at the Z-80 as a severely drain bamaged cpu with its limited range of 
conditional jumps.

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