Most trade magazines of that era were pretty similar in size and number of ads , eg. PC Magazine. Pre-Internet they were one of the only ways to keep up with industry news, topics and products.

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hypercube33 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Then there was computer shopper...man I'd get 8 months out of one of those just paging through and dreaming

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sizzzzlerz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There were, and still are, a number of magazines in the electronics industry, EDN, for example, that were available for free to engineers that were 75% ads with a few articles. The publishers and advertisers expected the articles to draw the engineers who would be the ones to spec components for their current designs.

	▲	asdefghyk 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		EDN - Voice of the Engineer https://www.edn.com Electronic Design News (EDN) is an electronics community for engineers, by engineers. Find the latest articles, magazines, tools, and blogs in the industry. I like their tear downs of electronic equipment. https://www.edn.com/category/design/under-the-hood-teardown/... Sadly Internet archive does not have a complete collection of old EDN magazines ....