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I think what a lot of younger people also don’t realize is how gigantic a single issue of computer shopper was. They were as thick as phone books with thin weig
by shiftpgdn 3y ago
I think what a lot of younger people also don’t realize is how gigantic a single issue of computer shopper was. They were as thick as phone books with thin weight pages. I remember multiple issues being well into the thousands of pages.
- zakki 3y agoI don’t think younger people understand your description of how thick Computer Shopper was. Because most likely they don’t know how thick is a phone book ;D
- function_seven 3y agoFor those that don't know, a phone book was often about twice as thick as a Thomas Guide. That should help.
- mindcrime 3y agoAnd a Thomas Guide was about as thick as 8 or 9 J.C. Whitney catalogs.
- pmontra 3y agoAnother set of imperial units unknown to us Europeans? :-) How tick was that, a couple of inches / 5 cm?
- keithalewis 3y agoThat couldn't even fit on a floppy disk. You know, that icon thing kids click on to save things.
- throwaway173738 3y ago15-20 Farmer’s Almanacs.
- zepolen 3y agoSo around 6 iphones?
- UncleOxidant 3y agoOnce Computer Shopper became huge phone-book-sized things I quit buying them because I just didn't have the room or the time - fortunately our college library subscribed and I could peruse it there, but generally I'd read Byte, Creative Computing or Dr. Dobb's Journal instead. I recall when CS was kind of a newspaper prior to being a bound magazine format.
- JohnFen 3y agoComputer Shopper, Dr. Dobb's, and Byte were all incredible and indispensable. I miss them all sorely and often wish that there was anything comparable in existence (online or not).
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- h2odragon 3y agoI used to use old ones as rifle target backstops. .22LR would not penetrate a single issue.
- rbanffy 3y agoIt's very brave to mention such heinous crimes in this discussion.
- h2odragon 3y agoI should brag on my 1988 - 1996 complete run of "PC Magazine" too
- Aeolun 3y agoI imagine that at the time they were just as ubiquitous as the phone books.
- rbanffy 3y agoFair. I guess historians would also object against destroying phone books, if not right now, in a hundred years. We recently told our daughter what a phone book was. She was flabbergasted.