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Byte (November 1981)

Cover of the November 1981 issue of Byte Byte tended to be the most technical of mainstream computer magazines though it became less so over time. It was not PC

Index 3 - Computer Magazines

My main index of posts has gotten too large (updates exceed max transaction size) so I have started splitting it up. Index 3 or "The Computer Magazine Index"

PC World (May 2005)

Cover of the May 2005 issue of PC World PC World was probably the most widely available PC Magazine throughout the 1990s and 2000s. At some point, they started covering

Installing an old controller in Windows 10 [Eng+Spa]

English With my best wishes to enjoy this excellent week and with much encouragement. I hope you are in the best possible way. Some time ago, I had told you in the

Popular Computing Weekly (July 7th, 1983)

Front page of the July 7-13 1983 issue of Popular Computing Weekly Popular Computing Weekly was, as the name suggests, a weekly publication covering computers. It

Timex Sinclair User – Issue Number 3

The Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum were extremely popular computers in the U.K. during the 1980s and even early 1990s. However, while there were variations of those

Easy Home Computer (June 1983)

Easy Home Computer was one of many early 1980s computer magazines. This would seem to be a relatively obscure one. The premiere issue from June 1983 features the

Popular Computing Weekly (March 20-26, 1986)

Popular Computing Weekly is a magazine that was published weekly in the U.K. Weekly! I am not aware of any computer magazines being published that often in the U.S.

Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #9 (part 18)

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago. I finally got around

Amstrad Computer User (April 1987)

In the U.S. in the 1980s, the computer wars tended to center around the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit as well as the TI-99/4A, VIC-20 and TRS-80 earlier

Ahoy!'s AmigaUser (August 1988)

Ahoy!'s AmigaUser is a spinoff of Ahoy! which was originally a magazine for Commodore 8-bit users. AmigaUser of course covers the Amiga. AmigaUser only lasted a

Netscape Composer - HTML Editor: Nostalgia Retrotech

Source of image Netscape Composer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor initially developed by Netscape Communications Corporation in 1997, and packaged as part of the Netscape

HotDog HTML Editor: Nostalgia Retrotech

Source of image I was working with a blog post template, but I went into the html code to fix a few things that I didn't like the way they looked. At that moment

80-US (January 1979)

The TRS-80 was one of the first home computers available and therefore had some of the earliest computer publications dedicated to it. 80-US is one of those. The

Digital Archaeology: Dell PowerEdge 2550

While out patrolling my neighborhood...really just taking a walk after dinner, I spotted something interesting by the curb. There were what appeared to be several

73 Years Ago...

That was a Computer, not mini things we use today :-)

Who You Gonna Call?

I remember buying this with my Columbia House video club membership. Anyone remember those? Look how glossy that box cover is. It's still in great shape which leads