{"id":1078,"date":"2014-09-22T10:17:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2014-09-23T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:34:55","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-computer-shopper-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1078\/retro-scan-of-the-week-computer-shopper-debut","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Computer Shopper Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/computer_shopper_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/computer_shopper_small.jpg\" alt=\"Computer Shopper Magazine debut advertisement - 1979\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;The most divisive magazine in the USA.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Veterans of the computer scene will no doubt recall Computer Shopper, a massively large (11&#8243; x 14&#8243;, later 10&#8243; x 13&#8243;) and thick (usually around 1.25&#8243;) monthly publication that mostly ran classifieds and paid advertisements for PC vendors.  The magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologizer.com\/2009\/02\/27\/computer-shopper-a-magazine-no-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">ended its print run in 2009<\/a>, 30 years after it launched.<\/p>\n<p>I only know when it launched because of this advertisement for the launch of Computer Shopper that appeared in the November 1979 issue of Byte.  It&#8217;s interesting to see a legend at its birth.<\/p>\n<p>I was never a huge fan of Computer Shopper, since it was essentially a month&#8217;s worth of computer junk mail stuffed into an awkward and almost unreadibly-large magazine format.  But I did respect it as a mainstay of the computer industry &#8212;  as familiar as a phone book and as timely as a newspaper.  May she rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Byte Magazine &#8211; November 1979, p.189]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Did you ever read (or more accurately, peruse) Computer Shopper?  What are your memories of the publication?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most divisive magazine in the USA.&#8221; Veterans of the computer scene will no doubt recall Computer Shopper, a massively large (11&#8243; x 14&#8243;, later 10&#8243; x 13&#8243;) and thick (usually around 1.25&#8243;) monthly publication that mostly ran classifieds and paid advertisements for PC vendors. The magazine ended its print run in 2009, 30 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26],"tags":[284,907,150,113,906,905,60],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","tag-284","tag-ads","tag-advertisement","tag-byte","tag-classifieds","tag-computer-shopper","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}