Editing Datamation (section)

{{Short description|American computer magazine}}
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| image_caption   = February 1998, the final print edition of ''Datamation'' magazine
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'''''Datamation''''' is a [[computer magazine]] that was published in print form in the [[United States]] between 1957<ref name=CompuDecisions.NYTlist>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/29/business/computing-s-lusty-offspring.html
|title=Computing's Lusty Offspring
|quote=Thus was Datamation born in October 1967. With a circulation of 145,000, Datamation now ranks as the oldest publication |author=N. R. Kleinfield |date=August 29, 1981}}</ref> and 1998,<ref>Roy A. Allan [https://books.google.com/books?id=FLabRYnGrOcC&pg=SA1-PA14&lpg=SA1-PA14&dq=Datamation+magazine+1957 A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology], 2001, {{ISBN|0-9689108-0-7}}. page 1/14 "A popular data processing magazine called Datamation started in October 1957 as ''Research and Engineering (The Magazine of Datamation)''."</ref><ref name="shutdown confirmed1998CW">[https://books.google.com/books?id=hmADtY_o5HsC&pg=PT15&lpg=PT15&dq=Datamation+magazine& Venerable IS Journal Shuts Down], Sharon Machlis // ComputerWorld, page 15, 19 January 1998</ref> and has since continued publication on the web. ''Datamation'' was previously owned by [[QuinStreet]] and acquired by TechnologyAdvice in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Staff |first1=eWeek |title=eWEEK Moves to New Publisher, TechnologyAdvice.com |url=https://www.eweek.com/innovation/eweek-moves-to-new-publisher-technologyadvice-com/ |website=eweek.com |access-date=14 May 2021}}</ref> Datamation is published as an online magazine at Datamation.com.