Goodbye to Pat McGovern, Founder of IDG

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I worked for Pat McGovern in the late 1980’s, a sort of golden era for IDG, the International Data Group. I worked in the consumer division, located in Peterborough New Hampshire. Some of IDG’s consumer publications had been launched by Wayne Green, a brilliant and colorful character in his own right; many others were launched in that Peterborough lab during those years of creativity and opportunity: magazines for the Apple, for the PC, for portable computing and family computing; some of the first “disk” magazines; and, from Patrick Ferrell in California, the first consumer gaming magazine, GamePro.

Many, maybe all, of those magazines are now dead—the tech world has always moved quickly.

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