Do you read print computer magazines - the 'real' ones on the shelves?

**webmaster** · 28 January 2009, 04:13 PM

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**Soquili** · 28 January 2009, 04:28 PM

In the past (20 to 30 years ago) I read computer magazines avidly. On the odd occasion I buy one now they have no substance.

Compute! magazine was one of my favorites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute!

**handrawn** · 28 January 2009, 04:58 PM

Bill - your link is broken - the shriek is outside [I've always wanted to say that

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**Soquili** · 28 January 2009, 05:52 PM

Thanks Steve the link is now correct.

In programming circles (here in the States at least) that is called a bang and the asterisk * is called a splat.

**handrawn** · 28 January 2009, 06:17 PM

I am displaying my roots maybe in calling it a shriek

**steve.ledger** · 28 January 2009, 07:18 PM

As the question is "Do you read print computer magazines" I answered No.
But I once did (a lot)

**Howie** · 04 April 2009, 06:37 AM

There are a few computer magazines I still get. MAXIMUMPC is my favorite , funny I can't recall the other right now.
I like to stay up on current technology.The reading made me adept at doing my own computer builds.A fun hobby and I also do some repair.

**ChiefLee** · 30 April 2009, 07:41 PM

I stopped buying print publications (newspapers or magazines) years ago. I do get ESPN the Magazine only because when you sign up to become an "insider" you get the magazine.

**mac173** · 01 May 2009, 03:28 PM

I must not be as big a geek as I thought because...........

Originally Posted by Soquili

........that is called a bang and the asterisk * is called a splat.

Originally Posted by pauland

I always thought a shriek was an exclamation mark..

I always thought bang and splat and shriek required I have a girl involved......

To the original post, I will on occasion read a magazine on a rack at the store, but I seldom see any reason to buy one. I find that Extreme Tech and Extreme Build-It covers most of what I want to know about hardware, and the software I use is all either UNIX/Linux based or Xara, so the best resources are online.

**pauland** · 01 May 2009, 03:39 PM

I gave up reading computer enthusiast magazines ages ago - I figured that once you learnt all about Vesa Local Bus and IDE drives there was no point in knowing more..

;-)