datamation

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datamation - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Datamation
  
     /day"t*-may"sh*n/ A magazine that many hackers assume all
     suits read.  Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in
     "Did you read that in "Datamation?""  It used to publish
     something hackishly funny every once in a while, like the
     original paper on COME FROM in 1973, and Ed Post's "Real
     Programmers Don't Use Pascal" ten years later, but it has
     since become much more exclusively suit-oriented and boring.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

datamation - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Datamation
   /day`t@.may'sh@n/, n.
  
     A magazine that many hackers assume all suits read. Used to
  question
     an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read that in Datamation?". It
  used
     to publish something hackishly funny every once in a while, like the
     original paper on COME FROM in 1973, and Ed Post's Real Programmers
     Don't Use Pascal ten years later, but for a long time after that it
     was much more exclusively suit-oriented and boring. Following a
     change of editorship in 1994, Datamation briefly tried for more the
     technical content and irreverent humor that marked its early days,
  but
     this did not last.