Nobody mourning Computer Weekly?

[minestrone]

No internet access Build scripts

I'm sure I was happier then ...

THe good old days I suppose, 11 inch monitors, making a living off 2 digit years, ripping off the cellophane on CW, software seems to be very dull these days.

[moorfield]

THe good old days I suppose, 11 inch monitors, making a living off 2 digit years, ripping off the cellophane on CW, software seems to be very dull these days.

Freelance Informer.

Now they were the good ol' days!

[stek]

Freelance Informer.

Now they were the good ol' days!

I remember that!

The Pringle Eating contest, the 'who's got the oldest item of fruit in their drawer' contest, and I remember then, must have been 2000 ish, the highest paid contractor stakes, won by some guy working in pre-EU Poland on £13,000 a week, never forgot that last one, I'm still nowhere near.

Going back to Pringle Eating, the rule was to grab as many as you felt able, stacked as per tube, and attempt to crunch and devour them. Too many and you can't get the jaw leverage to crunch them. Also Salt and Vinegar were the worst, they dried your mouth out summert rotten.

I did 13, one lad down the corridor did 17 but nearly died in the process....

[OwlHoot]

Wasn't Computer Weekly just a plug for company news and product releases?

I don't remember a time when it wasn't deathly boring, except on very rare occasions when some article was about a company or person one knew.

[Sysman]

Wasn't Computer Weekly just a plug for company news and product releases?

I don't remember a time when it wasn't deathly boring, except on very rare occasions when some article was about a company or person one knew.

I seem to remember it as very establishment, all mainframes and COBOL.

[Sysman]

Much like Electronics Weekly. Which had 24 pages & 3 job ads.

The writing's on the wall for that as well.

I remember coming across a stack of one old computer magazine (the name which escapes me at the moment) in the mid-nineties. In the eighties it was a must read for the technical articles it contained. As I worked my way through the stack, I could see the progress of its demise in front of me. The most recent copies even had blank bits where the adverts should have gone.

[Wodewick]

All I remember of all these types of Mags (CW, FI, Computing and several others) is that once you got on the mailing list you could never get off of it.

It seemed every few months a "Re-register or we will stop sending" form came inside the packaging and for every one you filled in it meant you got another copy for a few more months, and you never dare not fill it in just in case they did stop sending them - and then you would be a "Just a user" rather than a "Computer Bod".

Plus I think most of the shows/seminars had freebies that you could only get if you filled in a registration form for yet another copy.

[Sysman]

All I remember of all these types of Mags (CW, FI, Computing and several others) is that once you got on the mailing list you could never get off of it.

What I remember is that they were most insistent that they sent it to your work address, not your home address. This was based on some statistic they had conjured up that every copy delivered to work was read by n people.

That didn't work in one antisocial place I worked at. My theory was that they were so desperate to escape that they didn't want anyone else to see adverts for jobs they were interested in.

So I managed to get them sent to my home address by explaining I spent most of my time at clients (true).

Big mistake. I couldn't stop them coming and would get home at a weekend to a hallway full of the buggers.

Mostly wet, because the postman wouldn't shove them all the way through the letterbox.

They didn't stop until I moved home.

[Scrag Meister]

Mmm CW hay day, 75% jobs, 15% ads, 10% news.

They didn't stop until I moved home.

But the 80 year old Granny who bought your house died because she got blocked in by a mountain of CW and died from starvation, cos she couldn't get to the shops.