PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell

This is part of that window in time and place that isn't Internet history but isn't the part of the early Web on either. BBSs/PC culture, minicomputers, and various other things exist as sort of a memory hole about which there is relatively extant documentation outside of some memories that may not have been written down at some point. Some things from that era, anything related to Apple, big companies that survived (IBM, HP) made it through to the present day but much did not.

> IDG didn’t have any money for Macworld, but they apparently had plenty of money for 80 Micro, which was a magazine for the Radio Shack computer. I had to admit, Steve had a point

Sorry Steve, IDG knows who's going to win this race, and it isn't Apple.

> “Sure, laptops are really the wave of the future. I hear this machine of Steve’s is a real loser.”

Half right at least. And Radio Shack's laptop has been featured multiple times on HN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

>> According to Gates, "part of my nostalgia about this machine is this was the last machine where I wrote a very high percentage of the code in the product"