Flipping through a 1993 issue of PC/Computing magazine brought back a flood of memories of my computer distribution days (at a now-defunct wholesaler). This was when OKIDATA, NEC, AST, Hayes, Harvard Graphics, Nanao, Conner, CompuServe, and Quarterdeck ruled the roost or were players in their respective areas.Lotus and WordPerfect were already on the wane and Dell was on its ascendancy.
So many sales calls on so many by-gone products and brands.
Even the magazine bit the dust. Remember Creative Computing and recent victim Byte? There I go again lamenting the passage of time—sorry. The November 1993 issue pictured here had 546 pages, and if page count is any measure of the peak of a New Idea, then the Golden Age of home computing had played itself out fifteen years ago.
There was one familiar name on the masthead of that magazine, that of Penn Jillette, penning [!] an article about Uma Thurman and public-key encryption. Penn's one of my favourite entertainers. No Bullsh!t.
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ZEOS—The Company That Didn't.
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Conner—Can you make that an MFM drive, please?, RLLs are so yesterday.
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