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is there any place on the web where one can peruse PC Magazine issues from the 90s? I was looking for one last night and couldn't find anything like it.

codetrotter 3y ago
Here are a couple https://archive.org/details/pc-magazine-best-products-of-1994-jan-1995 https://archive.org/details/pc-magazine-best-products-of-199... https://archive.org/details/pcmagazine-v13n17 https://archive.org/details/pcmagazine-v13n17 Probably more of them too, there on archive.org
- alexitosrv 3y ago
  Wonderful! Thanks a lot for the link! Oh man, reading that end of year 1994 issue brings out a lot of memories. An IBM Thinkpad 755CD cost $7600 USD!!! and those advertisements for everything else: the design language, the words, the double entendre, those were the times.
ghaff 3y ago
Per other comment, there are a fair number of computer magazine issues from that era on the Internet Archive. But it's mostly very incomplete if you're looking for something specific.
1970-01-01 3y ago
These are freely available via Google Books, and also searchable: https://books.google.com/books/about/PC_Mag.html?id=w_OhaFDePS4C https://books.google.com/books/about/PC_Mag.html?id=w_OhaFDe...
- ghaff 3y ago
  Some are. Per my other comment, pretty incomplete--though welcome even as such.
  - 1970-01-01 3y ago
    I counted 215 issues online for the 90s decade. What is missing?
    - ghaff 3y ago
      So as a weekly... Not a criticism, but most of these sources are not comprehensive. [I'm wrong in the case of PC Mag.]
      - 1970-01-01 3y ago
        PC Mag was never weekly. Its all there.
        ghaff 3y ago
        My bad. I remembered it as a weekly. Still, many of the mags of the era are still incompletely archived if at all.
      - 1970-01-01 3y ago
        "PC Magazine uses Google Books as the official archive of its 27 years as a print publication." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/PCMag#Early_transition_to_square_binding https://www.wikiwand.com/en/PCMag#Early_transition_to_square...

codetrotter 3y ago

Here are a couple https://archive.org/details/pc-magazine-best-products-of-1994-jan-1995 https://archive.org/details/pc-magazine-best-products-of-199... https://archive.org/details/pcmagazine-v13n17 https://archive.org/details/pcmagazine-v13n17 Probably more of them too, there on archive.org

alexitosrv 3y ago
Wonderful! Thanks a lot for the link! Oh man, reading that end of year 1994 issue brings out a lot of memories. An IBM Thinkpad 755CD cost $7600 USD!!! and those advertisements for everything else: the design language, the words, the double entendre, those were the times.

ghaff 3y ago

Per other comment, there are a fair number of computer magazine issues from that era on the Internet Archive. But it's mostly very incomplete if you're looking for something specific.

1970-01-01 3y ago

These are freely available via Google Books, and also searchable: https://books.google.com/books/about/PC_Mag.html?id=w_OhaFDePS4C https://books.google.com/books/about/PC_Mag.html?id=w_OhaFDe...

ghaff 3y ago
Some are. Per my other comment, pretty incomplete--though welcome even as such.
- 1970-01-01 3y ago
  I counted 215 issues online for the 90s decade. What is missing?
  - ghaff 3y ago
    So as a weekly... Not a criticism, but most of these sources are not comprehensive. [I'm wrong in the case of PC Mag.]
    - 1970-01-01 3y ago
      PC Mag was never weekly. Its all there.
      - ghaff 3y ago
        My bad. I remembered it as a weekly. Still, many of the mags of the era are still incompletely archived if at all.
    - 1970-01-01 3y ago
      "PC Magazine uses Google Books as the official archive of its 27 years as a print publication." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/PCMag#Early_transition_to_square_binding https://www.wikiwand.com/en/PCMag#Early_transition_to_square...