Stan and I both worked at Computer Shopper where we seemed to trade back and forth the column “Whatever Happened to…” depending on the editor. It was enough so that there is at least one column with crossed bylines. Hilarious. Stan, was a great fellow! He will be missed by all.
Computer Shopper Magazine – Editor-in- Chief, Publisher and Editor- in-Chief Emeritus Computer Mart of New York – Founder and CEO of the first retail computer store in the Eastern United States Computers and Electronics Magazine – Editor Popular Electronics Magazine – Computer Editor The New School of Social Research – Instructor Sporting Clays Magazine – Editor-in-Chief Grumman Aviation Publishing – Technical Writer Shutterbug Magazine: Editorial Director In addition to shaping the personal computer industry from inception to present day through his editorial prominence, Stan was a prolific author of numerous books about personal computers including: Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer (revision at publisher) Using Microcomputers in Business Getting Involved With Your Own Computer: with Leslie Soloman A Complete Buyers Guide to Personal Computers
That part about the crossed byline was funny… Wait. What the heck is a crossed byline?
Surely seemed as one of early pioneers in the personal computer industry as it became mainstream.
I’m very sorry to hear this news. The “whatever Happened to…” series is great. John, perhaps a final edition of the series in Stan’s honor?
John, for someone who uses words for a living you can be careless in choosing them. I’ll let you figure out which word misses a letter in your article.
I remember that those bricks…eh…computer shoppers. They were the dirty secret among people building their own machines as they were the only way outside of a swap meet to find cutting edge hardware. There was also no other means to do decent price comparisons. Obviously, the Internet killed it. Still, those were good times…
# 5 Thomas
I remember when we’d get these magazines in college to pick out parts to build a state of the art, fast as lightning 80486 PC! And this was one of the few sources for arcane hardware and PC info at the time.
Good times indeed… although I don’t miss resolving IRQ and Memory Addressing conflicts…
And to everyone that’s laughing – remember.. these old machines could survive radiation from outer space (because the circuit tracings were big as friggin lego blocks compared to the modern 32nm-45nm chips).
John,
I’m sorry to hear about Stan Veit passing away. He was one of the great PC technology pioneers. I remember reading the “What Ever Happened To? ” articles in the 90s.
I’m sorry you lost a friend, John.
I seem from his obit that he was part of some other really cool magazines, too.
I absolutely loved Computer Shopper in its hay days — when it was the size of phonebook.
I hardly ever read the articles (sorry, John) but would scour those horribly layed-out advertisements dreaming about what system I would hack together.
A website has been put up in Stan’s Memory at
http://memorialwebsites.legacy.com/StanVeit.
All are encouraged to visit.
Ah, many, many happy memories! Each month I eagerly awaited the next issue of Popular Electronics, wondering what project(s) I would try to build. I think the ones that were my favorites were the ones I got to actually work! Then Computer Shopper became the resource for obscure articles and lots and lots of mail-order bargains. I didn’t usually buy every issue as I had Popular Electronics, but the ones I did buy were completely digested, if slowly.
Thanks a million, Stan!