[LINK] Australian online news history (Andy Farkas)

[Fiona Martin]

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.










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>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
>
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