Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: PYC136@uriacc.uri.edu (Andy Patrizio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: AC/AW fight over the 3000T Message-ID: <53390@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 12 May 91 22:31:15 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 61 Erik Funkenbusch writes: If you read the editorial carefully you can read between the lines : "We are still piecing the story together" translates into "We didn't even know about this A3000T until we found out AmigaWorld was running the Article which was too late to do anthing about it." ---------- Let me tell you a little story about AmigaWorld and Amazing Computing. Last summer I took a job at AC. It's based in Fall River, MA, and I live in Rhode Island, about 35 miles away. The job paid peanuts, and I knew that. But I wanted work experience. My second week there and AW comes out with the story on CDTV, which they referred to as "Baby." Needless to say Managing Editor Don Hicks was bent out of shape because the CDTV had just been announced. I wrote the story for it later that week (dig out your back issues of AC and look at the name), using a transcript of a press conference with Nolan Bushnell and one other CBM bigwig (I should know his name, but can't remember right now. It wasn not Copperman). My story was solid. I used press release information and comments from the press conference. The AW story was total speculation and vapor because they had nothing to offer. re-read the story. The title "Baby" was an inside joke at CBM. When I heard it I cracked up. What really angered Don was when I pointed out that the AW cover was not the CDTV. CDTV, if you look close, uses a dish for the CD that you insert. The AW cover was a tray that CD players use. You could even see a brand name over the tray. I guessed it was Pioneer. So needless to say an awful lot of BS-ing was done on the part of AW. AW has a three month lead time. That means a magazine on the racks NOW had to be finished in February, or thereabouts. AC has a lead time of less than a month. When an issue is done it goes to the printer and is on the racks ASAP. Therefore, they ran a story on something that was nowhere near completed. At Comdex, the CDTV was still far from complete. AW had taken a monumental risk. If that machine was still vapor when they ran it, someone would look VERY stupid. Don ended up going to CBM HQ in West Chester after I pointed out this little stunt on the part of Doug Barney (Rubble). Normally he's pretty easy-going. But not that day... can't say I don't blame him. My point is this: let's not be too quick to accuse AC of being behind on things. Having been involved, I'm very willing to accuse AW of running stories that should not be run, and obtaining information through leaks. The whole event was a year ago, and I've forgotten some of it. But I do know it had to do with insiders and people at AW/IDG Peterborough leaking info. .signed, / | Bitnet: pyc136@uriacc.bitnet \ / Andy Patrizio | Internet: pyc136@uriacc.uri.edu \ / University of Rhode Island | ARPA: pyc136%uriacc@brownvm.brown.edu \ \ | Usenet: uunet!rayssd!idsvax!andypo / \ / \ "What a thrilling life..." -- Precious Metal /