Hi Andy - thanks for responding to my call out, and yes, the pre-internet online publishing world is pretty hard to recall, although I've found the Powerhouse Museum has an interesting collection of Australian material.
And we're in luck with the magazine you worked on. The Mitchell library has copies of Your computer : magazine for business and pleasure. Mosman, N.S.W. : White House Publishing, 1981-1997 v. : ill. ; 28 cm. I'll contact you off list about the BBS. regards, Fiona On 09/01/14 22:40, Fiona Martin wrote: >>I have very little on locally produced, pre-internet and pre-web news >>publications or services ? and would like to include mention of examples >>of both specialist and generalist news sources from this period. >> >Hi Fiona, >My very first job after I left uni in 1985 was with 'Your Computer' >magazine >published by Federal Publishing Company (Hannanprint Group), Sydney. It >reviewed >the latest and greatest hardware and software for the home hobbyist, >like things >you could plug into your S100 bus, CP/M software, and this new-fangled >thing >called an IBM-PC/AT. Editor's name was Jake Kennedy. >Not much about it on the interwebs, and the wikipedia article seems a >little >bit wrong with some of its facts compared to my memories... it was a >long time ago. On 11/01/14 12:00 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >Send Link mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Link digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:02:12 +1000 >From: Andy Farkas <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [LINK] Australian online news history >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > >On 09/01/14 22:40, Fiona Martin wrote: >> I have very little on locally produced, pre-internet and pre-web news >>publications or services ? and would like to include mention of examples >>of both specialist and generalist news sources from this period. >> > >Hi Fiona, > >My very first job after I left uni in 1985 was with 'Your Computer' >magazine >published by Federal Publishing Company (Hannanprint Group), Sydney. It >reviewed >the latest and greatest hardware and software for the home hobbyist, >like things >you could plug into your S100 bus, CP/M software, and this new-fangled >thing >called an IBM-PC/AT. Editor's name was Jake Kennedy. > >Not much about it on the interwebs, and the wikipedia article seems a >little >bit wrong with some of its facts compared to my memories... it was a >long time >ago. > >I do know I was Sysop of the BBS we ran (you could connect at 2400 bps!). >It was pretty busy most of the time. I even found an old nodelist from >1987: > ><http://www.textfiles.com/fidonet-on-the-internet/n1987/nodelist.289> > >(search for "Your_Computer" - its near EOF) > >I hope somebody has some issues stashed away in the attic somewhere, as >last I heard, the place burnt down a few years after I left. > >-andyf > > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > > >End of Link Digest, Vol 254, Issue 12 >************************************* _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
