Re: Is it that time already?

From	abuse@mooli.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Newsgroups	alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject	Re: Is it that time already?
Date	2021-12-12 13:26 +0000
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Gary Barnes <gkb@adminspotting.org> wrote:
[...]
> The first time I was paid for writing software was:
> https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=14996
> I had to chase up the payment, though.

I thought "that sounds awfully familiar", checked who published Amstrad
Action, and was totally unsurprised to discover it was Future Publishing.
They ignored my chase-up letters and finally coughed up when I made a
courtesy call from the County Court to explain that I was just filling in
the paperwork (this being before MCOL) and would they like to fish my
invoice back out of the bin?

It may be surprising that a publisher of niche magazines for a tech-savvy
audience is still trading in 2021, but of course that is a lot easier if you
don't pay your suppliers.

> Reading the included bumf, my dream back in 1992 was to upgrade to a 486.
> I did achieve that, at least, a 486DX25 with a whopping 16M of ram!

I ended up with a 25MHz 68040 with 6MB of RAM, and it probably wiped the
floor with your 486 except for 3D games. It's still around here somewhere.

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