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From: scutero@xanth.cs.odu.edu (<scutero>)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Editor
Summary: Chalk up another ex-subscriber
Keywords: How the mighty have fallen
Message-ID: <6022@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 88 23:34:56 GMT
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Reply-To: scutero@cs.odu.edu (<scutero>)
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Add one more to the list of disgruntled ex-subscribers.  I used to 
get a lot of usable information from _Byte_, but the past couple of
years have found me using it more of a source of mail order prices
than technical help and/or amusement.

Yes, I have two PC clones in the house and use them at work, but
for pity's sake guys-at-Byte -- I also have a Franklin Apple ][ 
clone, an Atari, and two flavors of Commodore around, too!
And I use two versions of UN*X at work on systems that in the old
days would have qualified as a _Byte_ 'small system.'

My horizons are broader than the scope of the magazine these days,
and I've voted with my checkbook.  I'm saving the $55 renewal and
putting it to better use.

I was disappointed when _Creative Computing_ went under because I felt
that it did a good job of covering the micro market and software reviews
of _all_ machines out there on a mid-tech level. It was a good balance
to the hard-tech _Byte_.  But at least _Creative Computing_ stuck to
their founding principles and died an honorable death.  I feel as
though _Byte_ has simply sold out to the barbarians and the Madison
Avenue creed.

Sigh.  At least we have the net.discussions.

                                      Lenore

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