[Red Badger]

No, he’s talking about MAGAZINES, like Computer Shopper and PC Magazine!..................

[VanDeKoik]

Dont forget Compute!, MacUser, PC Computing, and Byte.

So many great titles back then.

[Gaffer]

I guess I shoulda took a clue when the dweeb mentioned “DOS”......warn’t no “DOS” when I started.

Sheet, I thought we wuz talking old timer crap here. I remember sending and receiving emails over a Model 204 to someone in Arizona in 1989.... DOS my patootie....

[Gaffer]

Further, If you can’t remember ring core magnetic memory then you ain’t old school. :0)

[Mr. K]

I stopped subscribing to PC Magazine when I realized that in order to get a good review of any product all they had to do was buy advertising in the magazine.

Back in those DOS days the single most useful program I had was called HyperDisk and it was a set of utilities that also included HyperKey and HyperMemory (i think)

The speed disk did disk caching, so any programs that swapped or wrote to disk worked hundreds of times faster. You would execute a ‘write’ command and it would immediately return, but you would hear beeps every second while the caching program actually wrote it.

Hyperkey sped up your keystrokes and repeats- a big deal back then.

Those were two of the best software programs I ever used, and they never ever crashed (also a big deal back then)

The company owner refused to buy ad space in PC MAG and so the next time D-BASE came out with a new version that was fastest ever, OC MAG found out they were actually using HyperDisk to cache writes. So PC MAG bad-mouthed HyperDisk, when it was D-BASE that had issues.

So I stopped subscribing, and shortly around that time discovered Rush Limbaugh, and then FreeRepublic (around the time Bill was disgracing himself with interns)