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The South WTB 1993 issue of Computer Shopper

Covers: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Viriginia.
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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.
 
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
 
I used to have a 1993 issue of computer shopper. It was when they were at thier thickest. A treasure trove of cases I remember. I havent seen it in some time, I guess another victim lost in the move to my home.
 
The “old” computer shoppers really need to be digitized

My 1995/1996/1997 issues all got well worn and tossed
 
Well, we do have folks with autofeed scanners. It could be rapidly digitized if someone was willing to chop off the binding and feed it.
 
VERAULT said:
Whos going to take the time? How many pages were there at peak 1000?!
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Media with far more pages has been digitized in the past.

Trouble is these mags are mostly lost unlike other computer related “stuff” from that era.

Even an example from each year would be better than nothing, lots of stuff from the early days wasn’t found outside computer shopper.

My only exposure to Computer Reset was via that mag, bought a 21” fixed frequency screen with a modded video card from there
 
Ok Ok, But you realize 90% of it is Ads right? I mean I love taking a look in the past.. But all the work would mostly be done to save ads.
 
Archive.org has many issues of Info World archived. That magazine was targeted more towards businesses than consumers, but there is some overlap with stuff you would find in Computer Shopper.
 
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.
 
krebizfan said:
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.
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The places I bought from (ex Vertex and others) only sold via computer shopper and a clunky website.

The places that sold the cheapest generic systems were never in the mainstream mags, especially the places that sold used equipment or older versions of software.
 
maxtherabbit said:
Even ads can be useful as historical pricing guides
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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.

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!).
 
rliegh_ said:
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.

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!).
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There was one from the 80’s as there is an active archivist who “has them all” (not quite) and is slowly processing them

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Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

There’s no way for me to know where your awareness starts with all this, so let’s just start at the beginning. Computer Shopper was a hell of a magazine. I wrote a whole essay about it,…
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Scanning 200 issues of the Computer Shopper magazine \ VOGONS

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I am hoping he is getting support but haven’t seen any updates in a long time.
 
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