[Wally_Kalbacken]

Just think of Byte magazine or PC World back in the 83-85 time-frame. Each issue was about 20% more pages then the previous one. I think they got PC World into the 400+ page range several times. It was like getting a phone book in your mailbox.

[dhs12345]

But what fun! Before the days of the internet. :)

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m working through the denouement of my career in technology.

Accenture
Egghead
Software Company #1
Software Company #2
Software Company #3
Microsoft
Distribution

I was there for most all of it. The first IBM AT with a hard drive arrived the same day I started. Wrote JCL onto punch cards. Gonna go buy me an AI/Machine Learning piece of S/W this year. Wow, how times fly.

[cynwoody]

Computer Shopper was the heavyweight. At the front of the book was about 100 pages of articles, printed on good paper. The rest was endless ads, printed on flimsy paper that soiled your fingers with ink. It started out in the eighties and just got thicker and thicker through the nineties, until it topped 800 pages. Then along came online shopping, and its growth reversed, getting thinner and thinner until finally ceasing print publication sometime in the 2000s.