First post, by aries-mu
Hello fellow vintage computing people!
Imagine that, starting tomorrow morning, every month, you could get at any newsstand and find a new issue of a thick computer magazine that is all about vintage computing…
It would be like a revival of the old times… For example: starting from January 1986, every month, it would re-cover products, hardware and software, comments, articles that would have been covered if we truly were living in that month of that year, almost as if we were in a time machine.
It would cover everything: From the release of the (at the time) new Compaq DeskPro 386 DX, to the release of the new version of Central Point Anti-Virus for DOS, or a new Cirrus Logic graphics card, a new type of L2 cache, or EDO RAM, or countless other issues. Only, with the availability of information granted by today’s era. Imagine covering the topic of optimizing the amount of available conventional memory in MS-DOS. Just by googling, we could write a 30-pages article.
Not to talk about drivers and utilities! It would have an (optional?) DVD disc and of course a website where to download all the goodies. It might even become the world-reference / universal retro driver database, where whoever has any driver of anything could upload and categorize it!
It would be like a parallel time-line, displaced of xx years. In answering the questions below, identify mentally what’s your preferred time-range (E.g.: mine would be 1989-1996), and assume the magazine would start with Issue #1 covering matters from January of that first year.
Enjoy your journey… through time! And thank you!!
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