23 Sep
2002
23 Sep
'02
12:35 p.m.
No relation to PC World, which was launched by a disgruntled PC Magazine
staff that jumped ship when the publication was sold to Ziff-Davis. And no,
it wasn't an IBM PC-specific pub. See this eBay listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=20564999169916.
Michael Nadeau
Editor/Publisher
Classic Tech, the Vintage Computing Resource
www.classictechpub.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for statistics on the Computer market of the 80's
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Michael Nadeau wrote:
It's a British publication--Personal Computer
World.
The US "Personal Computer World" (aka PCW) was a giant. Is the British
one affiliated with it, or independent?
Did IT come out 5 years before the IBM "Personal Computer"?