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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 yea...

Cover of the January 1985 issue of RUN RUN was one of the most popular Commodore 8-bit computer magazines, mostly covering the Commodore ...

Cover of the July 1984 issue of ANALOG Computing ANALOG was one of the most popular Atari 8-bit computer magazines in the U.S. It was pub...

Cover of the September 2000 issue of Maximum PC Another issue of what was my favorite PC magazine. It was among the latest survivors in t...

The HP Workstation xw4100 was an entry level workstation featuring a Pentium 4 processor. Based on a bit of googling, it seems to have be...

Cover of the August 1984 issue of Big K Big K is a gaming magazine that was published in the U.K. in the 1980s. It mostly covered the pop...

Cover of the premiere issue of Home Computer Magazine (1984) Home Computer Magazine started life as TI99er which exclusively covered the ...

Cover of the October 1989 issue of Advanced Computer Entertainment Advanced Computer Entertainment, or ACE for short, was published in th...

Cover of the May 28, 1985 issue of PC Magazine Not only were 1980s issues of PC Magazine quite large (this one is around 375 pages), for ...

Cover of the August 2005 issue of Maximum PC Maximum PC, which start its life as boot, was my favorite PC magazine. It was oriented towar...

Cover of the January 1987 issue of PC World If you had a PC (meaning an IBM PC or compatible) or were thinking of getting one in the 1980...

Cover of the March 20, 1984 issue of PC Magazine PC Magazine was one of the two biggest magazines dedicated to IBM PCs and compatibles fr...

Cover of the February 1985 issue of Compute Compute! was a great magazine for those with home computer in the 1980s, at least if you had ...

Cover of the July 1990 issue of Computer + Video Games Computer + Video Games (or Computer & Video Games and whatever other variation...

Cover of the December 1988 issue of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment While VideoGames & Computer Entertainment was never as po...

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 yea...

Zaxxon was originally released as an arcade game by Sega in early 1982. It was ultimately ported to a variety of home systems, including ...

Cover of the January 2006 issue of Maximum PC Maximum PC was my favorite PC magazine. It had a pretty long life with the first issue bein...

Cover of the January 1982 issue of Compute! Compute!, at least in its earlier days, exclusively covered computers based on the 6502 CPU. ...

Cover of the December 1991 issue of Amiga Power Amiga Power was a magazine dedicated to gaming on the Amiga that was published in the U.K...

The Getac S400 is a ruggedized laptop. Ruggedized laptops have features that let them hold up better in more extreme environments. They i...

Cover of the September 1985 issue of PC World PC World was one of the most popular PC specific magazines from the 1980s through the 1990s...

Cover of the June 1989 issue of Advanced Computer Entertainment Advanced Computer Entertainment (ACE for short) covered games for various...

Cover of the January 1985 issue of Computer & Video Games Computer & Video Games was perhaps the longest running video games maga...

This ad from 1988 is for a couple of late 1980s computer games distributed by U.S. Gold in North America. Tower Topper is a platform game...

Pete Rose Pennant Fever was released in 1988 for DOS based computers. This game had the unfortunate luck of being released the year befor...

Ad from the May 28th, 1985 issue of PC Magazine APL is one of those older programming languages that I never had any experience with. I d...

Games for Windows is the result of Microsoft buying Computer Gaming World. Fortunately, the content did not actually change much with the...

The whole turn a video game system into a computer or turn a computer into a video game system failed every time it was tried. It was tri...