[bombcar]

People have absolutely no idea how niche things were - every city of moderate size (maybe a million?) had an independent computer magazine of some sort, some literally mimeographed pages stapled together, others flashy magazine quality productions.

And they had columnists and journalists and everything. Heady time.

[ghaff]

And I'm not sure I can go online and find a complete set of Byte Magazine much less the Boston Computer Society newsletter or something even more niche.

Probably I could find a lot of stuff if I went to enough libraries but it certainly isn't all available and nicely indexed on the open web.