Depending on where you lived there were some electronic magazines available. I remember dreaming about articles in Elektor and other national magazines like tha

Depending on where you lived there were some electronic magazines available. I remember dreaming about articles in Elektor and other national magazines like that. Libraries and book stores had a few books, especially if you lived in a university area. Data sheets for the processor and co-processors and digital logic components were usually available in electronic stores (they also had some books). But it's hard to imagine this world now that we have the Internet. I miss the focus needed to hunt down information and understand how thing worked. A lot of it was trial and error, trying to validate your understanding with experimentation.