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Re:VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003) by elzbardico on Saturday August 10, 2024 @08:31AM (#41209012)
Believe me or not, but I loved the ads in early PC Magazine (that I usually read as a kid a couple months later in my public library in Brazil thanks to some unknown subscriber’s donation).

I used to daydream about the equipment in the ads like other kids did with cars in car magazines

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Re:VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003) by ghaff on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:55PM (#41212520)
There was a huge magazine called Computer Shopper back in the day. It wasn't 100% ads but it was a very high percentage of ads peppered with mostly pretty formulaic articles.
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Re:VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003) by fuzztester on Sunday August 11, 2024 @04:11AM (#41214709)
>Believe me or not, but I loved the ads in early PC Magazine

I believe you, ha ha. I used to do the same, with both PC Magazine and BYTE.

And with DDJ and CUJ too. :) (Dr. Dobbs Journal and C Users Journal. Both of those had high quality articles on software topics, back then, and for many years.)

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