Re: Apple magazines

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

"Chris Alaimo" <cpalaimo@excite.com> wrote in message
news:bctppj$9dp$1@woodrow.ucdavis.edu...
> I'd like to hear people's opinions on what they think was the best
magazine
> in the late 70's and early 80's as a source of Apple ][ information.  I've
> been reading old issues of Byte magazine but I thought perhaps there would
> be something better.  Thanks
>
> Chris
>

I would say that Micro was the best magazine for the period of the late
70's, especially for the machine-level programmer, although it was primarily
a 6502 and not an Apple publication. Call-A.P.P.L.E. was also quite
exceptional, and it was all-Apple. Then some time in the very early 80's,
not sure exactly when, Nibble magazine got started and simply blew
everything else away for Apple II content. Another 80's magazine that I
found particularly useful was SoftTalk, not least because of Tom Weishaar's
"Uncle DOS" column.

Tom Weishaar took his column and turned it into his Open-Apple publication.
It was very, very excellent but it was not a magazine so much as a technical
newsletter.

For my money Byte had very good Apple II stuff but it generally carried very
little of it.

Tom Zuchowski