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It is with great sadness that I announce the passing way of Personal Computer World magazine. This great magazine was greatly loved by its readership, and was a stalwart in the early days of personal computing. Everything could be found there. It felt fresh, progressive and informative and was always at the cutting edge of technology. Whatever it was, you would find it there, and that is where a lots of readers got to know of developments in personal computing. C, Unix, Smalltalk, Lisp whatever it was, you learned about it in PCW, which along with BYTE magazine were the two great magazines of their era.
Every month I would be looking forward to the latest edition, which would normally arrive weeks before the start of the relevant month. I would browse it, and purchase it if something in it attracted me. It was like a fix I needed.
With the rapid progress in computers, and the IBM PC and compatibles in particular, attention shifted more to magazines which were more focused, flashier and oriented towards every day use, and I think it was from them on that its decline set in. It marks the passing of an era, and will always have a place in the hearts and minds of its original readership.

Enough eulogizing, (ed - I share your sympathy though - sob, sob).

To be truthful, I never really felt I would feel sad at the death of a computer magazine, but I really do. I am probably be getting on - somehow something like this makes you see how much time has passed. It gives me a nostalgic, wistful feeling, and sadly enough I don't even have a lot of my old copies around. I didn't feel that way about BYTE magazine, and I probably did not hear of its passing.

Shame on me.