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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  Datamation /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers assume all
     {suit}s read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read
     that in `Datamation?'" (But see below; this slur may be dated by the
     time you read this.) 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 is trying
     for more of the technical content and irreverent humor that marked its
     early days.
  
     Datamation now has a WWW page at `http://www.datamation.com' worth
     visiting for its selection of computer humor, including "Real
     Programmers Don't Use Pascal" and the `Bastard Operator From Hell'
     stories by Simon Travaglia (see {BOFH}).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Datamation
       
          /day"t*-may"sh*n/ A magazine that many hackers assume all
          {suit}s 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.
       
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