End of the Pi Journal

The Washington Apple Pi Journal published its final issue as 2016-03 — V38 N01 — Volume 38, Number 1, Spring 2016.

Span of publication: February 1979 — Spring 2016 = 37 years, 1 month.

Founder Bernard Urban's initial February 2, 1979 letter (1979-02 — V01 N01) launched the publication as a 3-page typed mailing for an Apple II user group. It ended as a 40-page eJournal covering iPad Pro, Apple Watch era, and the Mac as it transitioned from peripheral underdog to dominant consumer-computing platform.

Editor of the final issue: Jay Castillo. President: Ken Goldman.

Why it ended (inferred from the publication's late patterns): - 2011: First missed bimonthly issue (Jul-Aug) - 2012: Two missed issues — only 4 published - 2013: Schedule shifted to quarterly; only 3 issues - 2014: Only 1 issue all year (King: "nearly a year has elapsed") - 2015: 2 issues - 2016: 1 issue — the last - "Responses to General Meeting Questions, May 31, 2014" appeared in the FINAL issue — two-year content backlog

The Pi club continued without the Journal. The 2016 wap.org Journal Showcase index — which seeded this wiki's stub catalog — confirms Vol 38 N1 as the terminal issue.