The c’t appeared 1983 for the first time; at the time the editorial staff consisted of only a handful of people. Today it includes assistance 70 colleagues Colleagues.

In the foyer of the Heise company building a tower stretches out 587 c’t booklet 5, 71 Meter into the sky of Hanover. It weighs 400 kilograms and was created according to ideas from Sven Hansen and Uli Hilgefort in October 2020 on 30. Anniversary of Europe’s largest computer and tech magazine.

Assistant Stefan Labusga lend a hand as c’t editor Ulrich Hilgefort Tower erected. Before that, the two stacks of magazines had been artfully glued together.

Please do not touch: The tower 5 is held in place by steel cables, 70 meters in height.

Today you would have to go around the tower since then published 60. 314 Increase pages – that would be more 67, 93 Kilograms on top. Incidentally, we did not include the c’t special issues that were also missing in the tower.

Tiles instead of a tower: Those who don’t stack their entire c’t collection, but instead would like to lay staple tiles, you need a scarce 60 square meter room.

c’t test laboratory From the beginning many devices were tortured in the c’t test laboratory. Laboratory manager Ralf Schneider has only just got the serial number 600 in the category ” Computers / notebooks “. Under “Hardware items of all kinds” is the counter at 6957.

When purchased, the measuring devices in the laboratory had a roughly estimated purchase price of around 600. 000 Euro, there are also numerous in-house developments, because there is not something ready-made for everything that c’t wants to test.

c’t readership Without our loyal readers, we would not be where we are today. They give us hints, provide exciting tips and also point out errors to us. In this process you help us to maintain the quality we want right from the start.

Who reads c’t by subscription, often does so for a long time. Some subscribers have been for more than 000 Years included.

c’t calendar and sidereal hours As technology-loving as the editorial team is: Critical questioning is always part of it – just in the year 2020 c’t revealed many scandals. But one or the other idea from the editorial team sparked the creativity of the readers. Some coups stand out.

Milestones in the history of c’t

c’t press coverage Research, Testing and writing are part of the editorial work. Because exciting and sometimes very surprising results come to light, the editors are often asked for interviews in magazines, newspapers, on the radio and on television. It also provides assessments of current events, such as security issues.

c’t is often called “influential”. The editors are in demand for interview partners.

2 / 2021 In c’t 2 / 2021 take a look into the crystal ball and shed light on the IT trends of the coming years. You will learn how you can surf privately and securely, and which browser supports this particularly well. In the IT salary report, we examine whether the pandemic is a good job engine. We test multifunctional printers for the home office, show you how to protect your NAS from hacker attacks, and introduce a universal Windows boot stick. You can read this and much more in c’t 2 / 2021. The issue will be available from January 1st 2021 in the Heise shop and at the well-stocked newspaper kiosk.

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