Your Computer 1983

in #history8 years ago

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OK I've spent a good half hour flipping through this, so I might as well share it with you too.

It's the Internet Archive's scanned (and OCR'd - so kinda searchable) December 1983 edition of Your Computer - "Britain's Biggest Selling Home Computer Magazine" - 332 pages for 80p (that's about 1SBD). Most of it is advertisements (big and glossy, down to the small and badly spelled) but there's some editorial and features, including a traditional look at the future that has big similarities with current blockchain market forecasts. Plus the wonderful type-in programs like this Golf for ZX-81 (there's also Bricks for Spectrum and Labyrinth for the Dragon).

Nostalgia for those over 45, an education for everyone else :)

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I remember those magazines well. I used to buy a lot of them. It was out only source of information back then. Happy times

Those listings always had bugs, to be fixed in the next magazine... by then you had lost interest and moved on the the next listing... that also didn't work.. haha..