Glenn Patch Have you ever heard of Shutterbug Magazine or PC Shopper? Have you ever heard of 57 Heaven or Dick Clarks Band Stand in MO? Have you ever heard of the Branson Airport? These are all projects that Glenn Patch has been involved with over the years. He used to live in Titusville. He donated the building to the Titusville Historic Museum! Here is some info: Continuously published for 30 years, Computer Shopper magazine was established in 1979 in Titusville, Florida. It began as a tabloid-size publication on yellow newsprint that primarily contained classified advertising and ads for computers (then largely kit-built, hobbyist systems), parts, and software. The magazine was created by Glenn Patch, publisher of the photo-equipment magazine Shutterbug Ads, in the hopes of applying its formula to a PC-technology magazine. The magazine rapidly expanded into the then-burgeoning area of popular factory-built computers such as the TRS-80, as well as models from Apple Inc., Atari, Texas Instruments, and others. For a time, it was a popular[citation needed] source of info for users of these soon-to-be-outmoded home computers. Then, as the white box IBM PC compatible business exploded in the mid-1980s, it became a source of shopping info—via its editorial content and its volume of direct-sales advertising—for the clone-PC revolution. Dell and Gateway, Inc. sold their wares through ads in the pages of Computer Shopper. In August 1984, the first perfect-bound issue of Computer Shopper debuted (at 350 pages), and the phone-book-size magazine regularly topped the 800-page mark during the early 1990s. It was during this time that the magazine was sold to Ziff Davis Publishing (first as a limited partnership, then solely owned). It was later sold, in 2000, along with Ziff-Davis ZDNet Web site, to CNET. CNET sold Computer Shopper to its current owners, SX2 Media Labs, in 2006.[3] In April 2009, SX2 Media Labs discontinued the print version of the magazine. Photo: Fabian, Chris Montez, Glenn Patch (the owner of the Dick Clark Theater Complex), and Bobby Vee
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:25:00 +0000
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