.info (originally INFO=64) was a computer annual accoutrement Commodore 8-bit computers and after the Amiga. It was appear from 1983 to 1992.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
History
INFO=64 began as a newsletter appear by its founder, Benn Dunnington, operating out of a additional bedchamber in his home. After a few issues, the ambitious spirit addled and he absitively to aggrandize it into a full-fledged magazine.
The aboriginal few issues of the anniversary were appear by Dunnington operating as a sole cartel in the accompaniment of Washington. After a few issues, he confused the aggregation to Iowa, eventually accumulation as Advice Publications, Inc.. This, in turn, became a bound partnership, (Info Publications Ltd), which appear the anniversary until its demise.[1]
INFO=64 was produced application claimed computers. An beat account in anniversary affair explained that the anniversary was produced application alone "lay equipment", such as home computers and 35mm cameras, that were inexpensively accessible to the accepted public. Early issues were typeset application a Commodore 64 and a dot-matrix printer, giving the anniversary a characteristic hand-crafted appearance.
The anniversary anon switched to a added able actualization application laser printers and Newsroom and GEOScomputer application for the 8-bit Commodores, afore alteration its beat focus and publishing belvedere to the Amiga, and alteration its name to .info, which was the book addendum of Amiga figure files.
The Computer Press Association called .info as one of two 'Runners-Up' in the class of Best Computer Anniversary - Circulation Less Than 50,000 at its seventh anniversary awards commemoration in April 1992. Computers in Accounting won that category, which included able-bodied over 100 computer magazines at the time, but .info angry with the slicker and abundant better-funded NeXTWORLD.
Ironically, .info was in austere banking agitation by then, and the administrator was badly gluttonous addition to shop for the magazine. The anniversary bankrupt its doors in April 1992, and on September 20 the magazine's assets were auctioned off.[2]
Over the advance of its run, .info captivated three beat Commodore magazines that accomplished advertisement during the "great extinction" that addled computer magazines in the backward 1980s. These were Jim Oldfield and James Strassma's Midnite Computer application Gazette (which had ahead captivated 'The Paper'[3], one of the oldest absolute publications acknowledging Commodore computers), Mitch Lopes' RoboCity News (the ancient official advertisement of FAUG, the Aboriginal Amiga Users' Group, afore it was spun off), and Chris Zamara and Nick Sullivan's Transactor (the official advertisement of TPUG, the Toronto PET Users' Group). Unfortunately, back .info accomplished publication, the receivers stood in the way of acceptance .info's administrator to acquisition addition anniversary to accomplish its subscriptions.
A abounding set of the absolute run of INFO magazine, including photocopies of the aboriginal newsletter forth with added abstracts accompanying to the magazine, is housed in the library of the Accompaniment Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
The aboriginal few issues of the anniversary were appear by Dunnington operating as a sole cartel in the accompaniment of Washington. After a few issues, he confused the aggregation to Iowa, eventually accumulation as Advice Publications, Inc.. This, in turn, became a bound partnership, (Info Publications Ltd), which appear the anniversary until its demise.[1]
INFO=64 was produced application claimed computers. An beat account in anniversary affair explained that the anniversary was produced application alone "lay equipment", such as home computers and 35mm cameras, that were inexpensively accessible to the accepted public. Early issues were typeset application a Commodore 64 and a dot-matrix printer, giving the anniversary a characteristic hand-crafted appearance.
The anniversary anon switched to a added able actualization application laser printers and Newsroom and GEOScomputer application for the 8-bit Commodores, afore alteration its beat focus and publishing belvedere to the Amiga, and alteration its name to .info, which was the book addendum of Amiga figure files.
The Computer Press Association called .info as one of two 'Runners-Up' in the class of Best Computer Anniversary - Circulation Less Than 50,000 at its seventh anniversary awards commemoration in April 1992. Computers in Accounting won that category, which included able-bodied over 100 computer magazines at the time, but .info angry with the slicker and abundant better-funded NeXTWORLD.
Ironically, .info was in austere banking agitation by then, and the administrator was badly gluttonous addition to shop for the magazine. The anniversary bankrupt its doors in April 1992, and on September 20 the magazine's assets were auctioned off.[2]
Over the advance of its run, .info captivated three beat Commodore magazines that accomplished advertisement during the "great extinction" that addled computer magazines in the backward 1980s. These were Jim Oldfield and James Strassma's Midnite Computer application Gazette (which had ahead captivated 'The Paper'[3], one of the oldest absolute publications acknowledging Commodore computers), Mitch Lopes' RoboCity News (the ancient official advertisement of FAUG, the Aboriginal Amiga Users' Group, afore it was spun off), and Chris Zamara and Nick Sullivan's Transactor (the official advertisement of TPUG, the Toronto PET Users' Group). Unfortunately, back .info accomplished publication, the receivers stood in the way of acceptance .info's administrator to acquisition addition anniversary to accomplish its subscriptions.
A abounding set of the absolute run of INFO magazine, including photocopies of the aboriginal newsletter forth with added abstracts accompanying to the magazine, is housed in the library of the Accompaniment Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
Writers Crew
Benn Dunnington - Founder, Publisher, Editor
Mark R. Brown - Managing Editor
Tom Malcom - Senior Editor
Jim Oldfield - Associate Editor (after accretion of 'Midnite Software Gazette')
Carol Brown - Advertising Director (through affair 31)
Anna Folkers - Advertising Director (issues 32-49)
Megan Ward - Art & Production Director
Kent A. Embree - Art & Production Assistant
Tony Bodensteiner - Art & Production Assistant
Marty Amorin - Data Manager (early issues)
Judith Kilbury-Cobb - Data Manager (through affair 47) / Staff Writer
Krista L. Kapacinskas - Data Manager (issue 49)
Chris Zamara - Technical Editor (after accretion of 'The Transactor')
Nick Sullivan - Technical Editor (after accretion of 'The Transactor')
Bradley W. Schenck - Contributing Editor / Graphics Columnist
Harv Laser - Contributing Editor / Multimedia Columnist
Peggy Herrington - Contributing Editor / Music & Sounds Columnist (through affair 42)
Bob Lindstrom - Contributing Editor / Music Columnist (issues 44-49)
Oran J. Sands III - Contributing Editor / Video Columnist
Jeff Lowenthal - Contributing Editor / Public Domain Columnist
Don Romero - Contributing Editor / GEOS Columnist & 'CHUMP' computer annual apology guru
Jim Meyer - Contributing Editor / Productivity Software Reviewer
Mort Kevelson - Contributing Editor / Hardware Reviewer
Gregory Conley - Contributing Editor / Cartoonist
Warren Block - Contributing Editor
David Martin - Writer
Bob Baker - Writer
Daniel Barrett - Writer
Mindy Skelton - Writer
Jim Butterfield - Writer
Dave Haynie - Writer
Mark R. Brown - Managing Editor
Tom Malcom - Senior Editor
Jim Oldfield - Associate Editor (after accretion of 'Midnite Software Gazette')
Carol Brown - Advertising Director (through affair 31)
Anna Folkers - Advertising Director (issues 32-49)
Megan Ward - Art & Production Director
Kent A. Embree - Art & Production Assistant
Tony Bodensteiner - Art & Production Assistant
Marty Amorin - Data Manager (early issues)
Judith Kilbury-Cobb - Data Manager (through affair 47) / Staff Writer
Krista L. Kapacinskas - Data Manager (issue 49)
Chris Zamara - Technical Editor (after accretion of 'The Transactor')
Nick Sullivan - Technical Editor (after accretion of 'The Transactor')
Bradley W. Schenck - Contributing Editor / Graphics Columnist
Harv Laser - Contributing Editor / Multimedia Columnist
Peggy Herrington - Contributing Editor / Music & Sounds Columnist (through affair 42)
Bob Lindstrom - Contributing Editor / Music Columnist (issues 44-49)
Oran J. Sands III - Contributing Editor / Video Columnist
Jeff Lowenthal - Contributing Editor / Public Domain Columnist
Don Romero - Contributing Editor / GEOS Columnist & 'CHUMP' computer annual apology guru
Jim Meyer - Contributing Editor / Productivity Software Reviewer
Mort Kevelson - Contributing Editor / Hardware Reviewer
Gregory Conley - Contributing Editor / Cartoonist
Warren Block - Contributing Editor
David Martin - Writer
Bob Baker - Writer
Daniel Barrett - Writer
Mindy Skelton - Writer
Jim Butterfield - Writer
Dave Haynie - Writer
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