Re: Best Apple II publication of all time

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Tero Sand (cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: In article <41mki6$mrm@news.csus.edu>, DONALD CY LEE <leed@sfsu.edu> wrote:
: >
: >HI!
: >	With the demise of GS+, and with II Alive soon to follow, that 
: >leaves only SSII as the only printed publication left dedicated to the 
: >Apple II.  I originally was going to name this post as "Best Apple II 
: >magazine of all time", but after a little debate with Joe Kohn, I decided 
: >that "publication" would be better, so not to leave out anyone.  The 
: >title is self-explanatory, so please tell us your favorite Apple II 
: >publication of all time, though I never read them, you can include disk 
: >based ones if you wish.  

: As I said in another post: Call -A.P.P.L.E. 8/16 (when it was in its
: paper form) came close, and GS+ was pretty good too. As you may have
: guessed, I liked it when there was technical stuff, stuff for
: programmers.
: SSII is good as it stands, but it really fills a different niche.

I have to say Softalk was the best ever. Unless you mean Apple II only of
course. It was published from Sept '80 to August '84, and covered every Apple
machine there was in that time, II's, III's, Lisas, Macs. The main emphasis
in the early ones is Apple II since that was all Apple had at the time. Though
it didn't last long enough to cover the 512K Mac, much less the IIgs, it's 
truly classic. I've collected the entire series except for the first five and
have recently located two of those. When you sent in a subscription card with
your machine's serial number on it, you got a free year's subscription. That
was cool, I nearly got my full year for my //e's serial number before they van-
ished. The older ones have been a treasure trove of information about the old
machines I've been adding to my antique Apple hardware collection.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool