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.