{"id":532,"date":"2009-03-23T11:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2009-03-23T16:52:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T21:52:44","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-from-my-pocket-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/532\/retro-scan-of-the-week-from-my-pocket-to-you","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> From My Pocket to You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wizard<\/a>From my pocket to you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

My mother was born in Texas, and my immediate family usually visited her parents every summer when I was a kid. During one of these visits as a teenager, my grandmother invited me to look through her Time Magazine<\/em> collection. She led me to the back of the family’s wash house, a detached building on their rural Texas property where she did the laundry. Through a side door, we entered my grandfather’s generally dark and cluttered workshop. In the far corner — beyond the tools, beekeeping equipment, and motorcycle parts — I spotted three or four large cardboard barrels overflowing with old magazines. The mouse-chewn issues spilled over the edges of the containers where they had been piled haphazardly for decades.<\/p>\n

\"Benj's<\/a>I spent the rest of the day thumbing through musty old magazine issues from the 1970s and 80s. While reading a copy of Science Digest<\/em> from 1983, I ran across the ad for Wizard of Wor<\/em> and Gorf<\/em> you see above. I was amazed. In my youthful zest to discover and collect all things vintage, I felt like I had uncovered a lost Egyptian tomb. I’d never before seen a vintage video game print ad — and prior to that, I didn’t know that CBS had published a version of Wizard of Wor<\/em> (a game I love) for the Atari 2600.<\/p>\n

I eagerly tore out the ad page, folded it up, and stuck it in my pocket. Why I didn’t take the whole magazine is unknown to me; I guess I just didn’t want the rest.<\/p>\n

Until now, the page you see above has been sitting, still folded, in my collection of vintage print materials. It’s been waiting for a day like this when it can finally end its long journey from my mid-1990s pocket in Texas to you, on the Internet, today.<\/p>\n

Afterword<\/h3>\n

A year or two later, I revisited the Texas magazine pile and found even more material, especially in Time Magazine<\/em>. There were issues with cover stories on personal computers, video games, and computer viruses. That time, I took the whole issues themselves. Among them, I found a few ads for IBM systems (like this<\/a> and this<\/a>). I probably still have more from that collection that I can scan in the future.<\/p>\n

[ From Science Digest, January 1983. ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Tell us about your ancient computing or video game discoveries. When have you felt most thrilled at uncovering old video game or computer history?<\/p>\n

If you use this image on your site, please support “Retro Scan of the Week” by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry. Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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