Computer Ads from the Past
John Paul WohlscheidDid you ever stare at the ads in your favorite computer magazine and wish you could afford those cool systems or games? I have. Now I look back at computer history through those ads. I also republish interviews and comics from those magazines.
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Comics from July 1977 Issue of ROM Magazine
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These comics were published a month after the Apple ][ was released and six months after the Commodore PET debuted. Enjoy.
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MicroTimes Interviewed Stewart Brand and Matthew McClure of Whole Earth Access Link (1985)
from the July 1985 issue of MicroTimes magazine
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