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I remember going over every page and every Ad when magazines like this were the news pipeline for what was going on. Before Usenet, Internet etc, that was pretty much it. Dial-up BBS systems were more local than anything.

One thing really hit home with this magazine - the sheer vibrancy of the industry back then. Just about everyone was out there and trying to claim a niche in a corner somewhere. It ranged from somebody with a side project buying ads in Byte or the local users group, through small businesses, and some big ones.

And then came the IBM PC. And then the internet. Sameness happened. There doesn't seem to be anything left that remotely resembles the nascent computer "industry" of the early-mid 80s (except perhaps the tech hubs in China).

Another thing that struck me: writers freely provided their home address for mail replies. Imagine that today?