CompaqGuy1993
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I'm looking to buy a halfway decent copy of one of the phone book sized Computer Shopper issues from 1993. If you have any of these you are willing to sell please let me know what you have.
Media with far more pages has been digitized in the past.Whos going to take the time? How many pages were there at peak 1000?!
The places I bought from (ex Vertex and others) only sold via computer shopper and a clunky website.Many of the ads in Computer Shopper were also in PC Magazine. Some second tier mail order places would only buy a single page in PC while having multiple pages in Computer Shopper but unless one is trying to track prices on components like shift registers the online copies of PC Magazine might do well enough.
Hi! Thanks I will.I remember Computer Shopper so very well. It was fun to just look at all of the possible computers and parts, and dream about building them.
Welcome to the forum @CompaqGuy1993 ! You might want to introduce yourself in the “Introductions” forum.
- Alex
Please excuse me if "necro" replies are unwelcome -I just wanted to chime in here. They aren't only useful for that, but as snapshots of what specific hardware and combinations people had available to them in any given time. My main hobby is emulation so being able to refer to old computer advertisments to get a clear feel for what combinations of hardware folks used in, say, 1994 is a useful resource when I go on my 86box tangents (deciding what cominbations of hardware I want to emulate). Yes, there's wikipedia and other resources but I feel like advertisements give the clearest idea of what you would find if you walked into a CompUSA back in the day (for instance). Obviously not life or death; but still has it's use and its' value.Even ads can be useful as historical pricing guides
There was one from the 80’s as there is an active archivist who “has them all” (not quite) and is slowly processing themPlease excuse me if "necro" replies are unwelcome -I just wanted to chime in here. They aren't only useful for that, but as snapshots of what specific hardware and combinations people had available to them in any given time. My main hobby is emulation so being able to refer to old computer advertisments to get a clear feel for what combinations of hardware folks used in, say, 1994 is a useful resource when I go on my 86box tangents (deciding what cominbations of hardware I want to emulate). Yes, there's wikipedia and other resources but I feel like advertisements give the clearest idea of what you would find if you walked into a CompUSA back in the day (for instance). Obviously not life or death; but still has it's use and its' value.
There's a limited number of scanned copies of Computer User on archive.org -I found one for 1992, one for 1993 and one for 1994. There's more than that, but since that was my focus that is what I noticed.
Thanks and once again -apologies for 'necroposting' (I didn't do it lightly; honest!).