Absolutely - read it religiously. :)
Reminds me of Shotgun News....
...good times
Yes, I certainly do remember going through issues of Creative Computing and Byte, doing things like poring over the BASIC source code for "Original Adventure" with fascination, and playing that, Zork, Wizardry, and "Castle Wolfenstein" on my Apple II. I can also recall word processing with Screenwriter 2 (70 columns!) and working on VisiCalc spreadsheets!
I bought my Apple ][ Plus instead of my first car. I went deluxe for the time: 64K of RAM (including the 16K Microsoft expansion card), and not one, but two 150K Apple Floppy Drives! I booted into Apple DOS didn't have to stoop to slowly loading software from cassette tapes.
The whole kit and kaboodle set me back about $1799. When I did finally buy my first car, I had a friend who owned a Chevy dealership and he hooked me up with a beige 1970 Chevelle, rusted out below the rear window like they all were. Alas, it only had the 307, not the 350.
Before I started ICS at Georgia Tech in 1983, I sold that Chevelle for $750. Wish I'd held on to it!
The Apple ][+ finally found its way into a church rummage sale, I guess. The next generation of computer geeks had their Apple ][c's, Mac's, and XT's and AT's.
Ah, to be young again...
What I find amazing is all the billions of dollars spent on that equipment and now you couldn’t give it away.
Gotta either thank or blame Computer Shopper for getting me online 20 years ago.
It wasn’t just ads. A big part of my computer education was the articles and feedback from the subscribers.
Didn’t need it. I would leave my office in Silicon Valley and walk one block to Fry’s Electronics. They had everything.
Around these parts the free Microtimes and (damn! what was the other one?) magazine were mandatory reading.
When done with, they made great potted plant stands. Really soaked up the excess water.
Those were the days.