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Computer Ads from the Past

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Did you ever stare at the ads in your favorite computer magazine and wish you could afford those cool systems or games? I did. Now I look back at computer history through those ads. I also republish interviews and comics from those magazines.

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About John Paul Wohlscheid

Historian, writer, and geek

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