This issue (love the cover, it's bright and nice) is Volume 6, Issue 5, and #52. Cover price still $7.99.
Highlights:
- The DSL/Cable Wars ended with DSL as the winner, not taking into account other providers at the time (they only used their local services, apparently)
- Yes, this was the era of the dreadful iMac colors: "Flower Power" and "Blue Dalmatian". We don't know what the engineers were using at this time, but I'd guess it was something illegal and woefully bad for you.
- A $10,000 plasma TV? You can get plasma TVs for about 1/20 of the price now, same size (42")
- A close-up of the Motorola G3 processor. Looking back, it's strange to think that Google owns a good chunk of the former Motorola now (not Motorola Solutions, though).
- "Give it up. While it would be nice to make the next Quake-killer in Flash, it just isn't going to happen." At least, not for another 10 years...and such a game on Flash would probably destroy all but the most powerful of computers.
- The 250MB USB Zip Drive is reviewed. It's noisy and slow to write on traditional 100MB Zip Disks. Within a few years, Zip disks would be obsolete (my words, not theirs)
- How to land an airplane in a flight simulator (a rare one: they don't do game help normally)
All in all, a pretty mediocre issue (104 pages) but I still like the cover.
