I wrote the Rants & Raves column in Computer Shopper from its very first issue. I also wrote lots of reviews, opinion and programming columns. Then, after a few years a rival magazine, PC Plus poached me and I then wrote the Rants & Raves column for that magazine – as well, as recording videos for their cover CD/DVD.
But let me get back to the very beginning…
Computer Shopper launched in March 1988. I was editing a magazine at that time called The PC Buyers’ Guide, produced by Dennis Publishing. The owner of the company, Felix Dennis, had recently been to America and seen a magazine called Computer Shopper. He liked it so much that he decided to launch a UK version. I was asked to write a column. The brief was “make it a general rant”. I wrote that column, called it (uninventively) “A General Rant”, a subeditor changed the title to “Rants and Raves” and it stuck.
Anyway, here is a video I made all about that first edition of Computer Shopper…
