{"@context":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",{"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag","sensitive":"as:sensitive","dcterms":"http://purl.org/dc/terms/","gts":"https://gotosocial.org/ns#","schema":"http://schema.org/","exifData":"schema:exifData","PropertyValue":"schema:PropertyValue","interactionPolicy":{"@id":"gts:interactionPolicy","@type":"@id"},"canQuote":{"@id":"gts:canQuote","@type":"@id"},"canReply":{"@id":"gts:canReply","@type":"@id"},"canLike":{"@id":"gts:canLike","@type":"@id"},"canAnnounce":{"@id":"gts:canAnnounce","@type":"@id"},"automaticApproval":{"@id":"gts:automaticApproval","@type":"@id"},"manualApproval":{"@id":"gts:manualApproval","@type":"@id"},"always":{"@id":"gts:always","@type":"@id"},"toot":"http://joinmastodon.org/ns#","blurhash":"toot:blurhash"}],"id":"https://dfarq.homeip.net/david-bunnell-vintage-computer-magazine-publisher/","type":"Article","attachment":[{"type":"Image","url":"https://i0.wp.com/dfarq.homeip.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pc-magazine-issue-1.jpg?fit=497%2C687\u0026ssl=1","mediaType":"image/jpeg","name":"David Bunnell's PC Magazine"}],"attributedTo":"https://dfarq.homeip.net/author/admin/","content":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Bunnell, born July 25, 1947, was the founder of three of the most successful computer magazines of all time. He even edited two of them simultaneously, straddling two very different worlds.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was not only a pioneer of tech journalism, he is one of the all-time greats. Bunnell wasn\u0026#8217;t just a great tech journalist. He would have been great in any specialty. I am sad to say they don\u0026#8217;t make them like him anymore.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C!--more--\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EStarting young\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/david-bunnell-vintage-computer-magazine-publisher/pc-magazine-issue-1/\u0022 rel=\u0022attachment wp-att-36128\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https://i0.wp.com/dfarq.homeip.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pc-magazine-issue-1.jpg?resize=217%2C300\u0026amp;ssl=1\u0022 alt=\u0022David Bunnell\u0026apos;s PC Magazine\u0022 width=\u0022217\u0022 height=\u0022300\u0022 /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003ELike Wayne Green, David Bunnell started a popular magazine and lost control of it. The result was Bunnell and Green ended up under the same corporate umbrella at IDG.\u003C/figcaption\u003E\u003C/figure\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJournalism was in David Bunnell\u0026#8217;s blood. His father was the managing editor of the \u003Cem\u003EDaily Times Herald\u003C/em\u003E in Alliance, Nebraska, a small town in rural western Nebraska. He started his journalism career early. At an age when most budding journalists are editing their high school newspapers, he was editing the sports section of his Daily Times Herald.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis college degree wasn\u0026#8217;t in journalism, but it was in history. But the best college minor for a journalist is history, because if you understand history, then you can write about current events and put them in proper context. So it is not surprising that he could major in history and become a great journalist.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EDavid Bunnell at MITS\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1974, he took a job at MITS, the company who produced the \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/altair-8800-kits-went-on-sale-december-19-1974/\u0022\u003EAltair 8800\u003C/a\u003E. Originally his job was writing user manuals. Later, he produced a newsletter for them. While he was working at MITS, he met a couple of guys named \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-bill-gates-became-rich/\u0022\u003EBill Gates\u003C/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/paul-allens-tearing-into-gates-seems-familiar/\u0022\u003EPaul Allen\u003C/a\u003E. You might have heard of them. It was Bunnell who wrote an editorial that inspired \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-bill-gates-claimed-to-work-for-2-an-hour/\u0022\u003EBill Gates\u0026#8217;s anti-piracy open letter\u003C/a\u003E, which Bunnell then printed in the newsletter, but then also circulated to other publications to help it reach a larger audience.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter Altair, Bunnell\u0026#8217;s career had enough parallels with \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/wayne-green-computer-journalism-pioneer/\u0022\u003EWayne Green\u003C/a\u003E that it is entirely possible to confuse the two men.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPersonal Computing\u003C/em\u003E\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis first magazine was a magazine called \u003Cem\u003EPersonal Computing,\u003C/em\u003E which he founded in 1977. My dad subscribed to \u003Cem\u003EPersonal Computing\u003C/em\u003E briefly when I was a kid, but this was long after the Bunnell era. By then, it was a general purpose magazine, differentiating itself from \u003Cem\u003EByte\u003C/em\u003E or \u003Ca...