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The amount of advertising puts even Wired to shame. Holy cow.

• shawndumas 12y ago
  but it is more than 400 pages though
  • davelnewton 12y ago
    And back then it was devoured, greedily, by essentially anybody who was interested in computing. We had BBSs but no internet; information dissemination was radically different than today. Hobbyist computer magazines in those days were what we had, except for user groups.
    • pjmlp 12y ago
      Who could afford BBSs? In Portugal it meant long distance calls to Lisbon or Porto, into systems that were time limited and with up to 10 connections.
• edmccard 12y ago
  >The amount of advertising... ...was a reason people subscribed to computer magazines in the days before the internet, because it was one of the best ways to find out about (and purchase via mail-order) new stuff.
• teh_klev 12y ago
  Back in the day Byte was a chunky affair packed full of goodness. I didn't mind the ads, they were part of the charm. I kept all my Byte magazines from when I started reading it in ~1982 until they stopped printing it in 1998. Sadly I was very short sighted and "recycled" them - but when you've moved house frequently, shifting 15 years worth of Byte's got a bit back breaking. I used to enjoy digging out older issues to read both the articles and review the ads with a sense of nostalgia.