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MacUser - wasn't it swallowed up by MacWorld??? I used to have stacks of them laying about. Now all recycled after I tired of moving them all over creation.

Creative Computing.

Best. Computer Mag. Ever.

Nov 20, 08 - 04:36 pm Comment from: Demon

The list doesn't even cover the Trade Pubs that you couldn't even buy a subscription for and the one that printed a subscription price were hundreds or thousands a year. The IT world use to be full of these free if you qualified for trade pubs that were great tech publications

Macaddict was the best magazine in the world during its first few years.

MacAddict - RIP

Nov 20, 08 - 04:44 pm Comment from: kirkgray

Kilobaud
Interface Age

loved Byte magazine. It was hot especially when there were so many CPUs out there REMEMBER? Alpha (from DEC), MIPS, Pentium, Cyrix, PowerPC, AMD. Those were cool issues. I still didnt understand everything i read, but it was always interesting. That says alot about the insight and writing that was found in Byte.

The trees will appreciate this... I think credit card companies should stop snail mailing us all this junk mail. We can find them on the Web.

Nov 20, 08 - 04:45 pm Comment from: kirkgray

MacWeek

Nov 20, 08 - 04:47 pm Comment from: DRM sucks

*MacAddict was rebranded Mac|Life in February 2007.

Couldn't bring myself to renew the subscription after the rebranding/lame-ification of MacAddict.

Nov 20, 08 - 04:52 pm Comment from: SteveJobsAllergy

man the first few years of MacAddict were awesome. who thought that a decade later i'd actually look like Prison Guy.

MacUser is still going - every 2 weeks here in the UK!

Antic and Analog - two great Atari mags!

Nov 20, 08 - 05:18 pm Comment from: Bitjockey

Ahh yes BYTE was amzazing. There was something for everyone in that mag. and you were smarter for having read it, even if much of it was incomprehensible

i miss "mac today" ... the early newsprint edition (way before it became "layers")

Nov 20, 08 - 05:33 pm Comment from: CYxodus

I miss the 'VideoGames & Computer Entertainment' of the late 80's. I learned about the Genesis, PC Engine and the Gameboy because of them. I remember reading about the Gameboy while waiting for my parents at the YMCA.

Nov 20, 08 - 05:42 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

MacWeek, yes!

MacAddict was cute fluff, but hardly great. The demo disks were nice.

Popular Electronics is gone?!?

Nov 20, 08 - 05:49 pm Comment from: Shadowself

@stucktrader
Yes Byte was definitely one of the best. They did get it wrong occasionally (like one article claiming that a 12 MHz 80286 was faster at double precision floating point than a 16 MHz 68020 with a 68881 coprocessor), but in general they were very good. How many of us were pare of BIX (Byte Information Exchange). A good 'net capability long before AOL or the "Web".

@kirkgray
To this day I regret throwing out my weekly Macweek issues. There were lots of interesting articles in there found no where else like Apple's highest market share in the U.S. was 19.2% in either the second or third calendar quarter of 1990 (don't recall which one) and the time the broke the story on Apple's new Firewire (at 50 Mbps at the time -- either '89 or '90) and Apple's attempt at replacing NUBUS with QuickRing (an Apple invented bus but only used by DayStar Digital for one of their video cards -- long before SLI) and the time they described Pink and what it was going to do (but that Scully and others didn't really realize its true capabilities and innovation).

My votes:
• MacWeek
• Morph's Outpost

Oh wait, I forgot:

• Incider
• Compute!

@ KenC: I was surprised too!
How am I going to get tips on where to find better tubes for my Heathkit™ TV?

iCreate

(used a high gloss, high def format much copied - see website iclarified for a similar style)

A high gloss format? Didn't they offer a matte format?

PS: I will never buy a Snorg T-shirt - because of all their annoying spam ads.

Nov 20, 08 - 06:27 pm Comment from: iDon't

I miss reading the mags for free in the book store. Now I have to figure out how to get free coffee.

I loved InfoWorld, and the Industry Standard. And let's not forget, MacAddict rocked back during its hey day. I miss 'em.

I miss CrackAddict®.

There used to be a couple of magazines devoted to the Commodore 64. I can't remember their names. Every issue had new programs complete with code. I remember painstakingly typing in lines of code. If I remember right, each line had a check sum. If the number at the end of the line you just typed didn't match, you had made a mistake and needed to correct it.

How different from downloading apps on my iPhone.

Nov 20, 08 - 06:50 pm Comment from: Roger Knights

Call Apple

Nov 20, 08 - 06:55 pm Comment from: Scandalous

I used to enjoy reading "NeXTWorld" -- all four issues were rivetting!

The early years of MacAddict were phenomenal.. even MacHome was useful (it just disappeared after I renewed my subscription!), and MacUser too was great. In addition, there were some great Mac journalists no longer with us. I'm surprised about PC Mag. I'm a Mac Guy, but cancelled my subscription to PC World after too many annoying, amateurish articles in general, particularly an increasing number of Mac-bashing ones. Of all the PC magazines. I figured PC Mag was the most objective and informative. Dvorak, of course, was great comedy relief. But the Mac coverage was decent, so I kept that while cancelling PC World. I still get MacWorld and MacLife, of course.

InCider
A+

Open Apple / A2 Central

Do old Beagle Bros. catalogs count as magazines?

"Best. Computer Mag. Ever."

Have a care. Shatner will sue.

Kaypro published a great magazine for owners of its machines, called Profiles. My first computer was a 1983 Kaypro II.

I had the pleasure of getting a handful of articles and reviews published in it.

It disappeared, of course, with the Kaypro.

"Computer Shopper" might as well be dead. It is just not the same since they changed formats. That giant brick of a magazine had everything in it. It was all about the adds and that's what I loved about it and so did many other people.

I really miss MacAddict, I stopped my subscription when they hired the Bill Gates look a like editor and tried shipping the CD sleeveless. He was more bottom line than content minded.

There hasn't been a good Mac magazine for years.

AmigaWorld & Amazing Computing - the best and only Amiga magazines in the US. I remember not being able to wait for them to show up every month... and then later, only bi-monthly.

Nov 20, 08 - 09:05 pm Comment from: leatherman

I used to tell waiters that I was the restaurant critic for Byte magazine.

One of them believed me.

Nov 20, 08 - 09:19 pm Comment from: Me In LA

MacWeek - but do you recall who was in there?
One JCD.
Of course, Don Crabb - RIP.
Great rag.

Nov 20, 08 - 09:22 pm Comment from: DakRoland

I'd add Family Computing magazine to that list, personally. I used to spend hours typing in the programing code they featured every month on my VIC=20 and C64.I still have all the issues I got when I was a kid stored in some box up in my attic. Heh

Another vote for MacWeek and Creative Computing.

Don't forget Mac the Knife...

I'd also throw "RUN" Magazine into the mix. Excellent Commodore-64 monthly!

Omni, anyone?

Nov 20, 08 - 10:28 pm Comment from: daveydave

They left out WIRED. It's still in print, but it resembles Maxim more than the tech magazine it once was.

Wow - I looked through all the comments to see if anyone listed Softalk. I read Byte and Creative Computing before I got my first Apple ][+ in 1980. Back then I think you got six months of Softalk free if you provided them with proof you bought a new Apple. That was a great mag.

Nov 20, 08 - 11:36 pm Comment from: ken1w

Should have included some Apple II magazines, such as inCider, A+, and Nibble. Back before the Internet, I awaited for their monthly arrival with anticipation. Now, I get my MacWorld issue, and I barely notice. Sad...

wasn't there one called SOFTTALK or something similar ? I remember having one with Jobs and the first mac on the cover.

Macweek!!! i never bought a printed copy, but online...i used to cache the articles that interested me....on, gulp, eworld, no less...i have been so happy with MDN for filling that void!!!!

@Scandalous
NeXTWorld actually published for years. I have every issue except for the first. It was how I first learned about the internet. Every article ended with the email address of the author. It was a great tech rag; large format, colorful layouts. Lots of articles about the NeXT's object oriented development environment and cool NeXT software. The NeXT years were Steve Job's most important because he was able to develop the OOP paradigm into a commercially viable (though not commercially successful) OS that is now OS X.

Nov 21, 08 - 01:19 am Comment from: GregoriusM

MackWeek

Nov 21, 08 - 01:28 am Comment from: since1985

I always like MacUser much more than MacWorld in the early days when those were the only two mac resources. I mean, there was no internet! I had to go to Apple User Groups to get software demos! MacUser was much more accessible and practical than MacWorld which was more slick. Can't believe it didn't go defunct before '97, the year this article claims.

AmigaWorld