Your Computer - Magazine Retrospective - Part 1

This is first part of retrospective look at Your Computer, one of the leading UK home computer magazines in the early to mid eighties.
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[@FatNorthernBigot]

This is peak nostalgia, for me. I was more excited for "Your Computer" magazine than I was for the magazine I found in dad's bedside table. 😂

[@stephenrobertson6025]

To be honest it's the adverts I find most interesting in these old magazines. They provide a window into what products were available back then, and the prices, especially for some of the more obscure games and hardware. It's particularly interesting seeing ads for computers which failed to find a market, even if they were more advanced machines.

[@dreamcaster4754]

Love those old type ins!

[@goonerlee]

Wow there's a blast from the past. I had a Dragon 32 back in the day and used to get this along with Dragon User magazine.

[@signalcabin]

A maplin rechargeable battery charger still belongs to me. Bought 10 years ago in maplins mary syreet dublin city fentre

[@grymmjack]

As a boy I had the pacman sheets and pillow cases and comforter set :)

[@paulwilson1555]

I definitely had the Christmas edition of Your Computer, I think I bought it at WH Smiths, lots of content, a great read for a 11/12 year old, that Christmas I got my first computer a 48k ZX spectrum.

[@TheRetroEngine]

I'd guess in the early days magazines could use adverts as 'content' as it was all pretty new and we were all wide eyed in wonder. Don't remember getting this, unless I got it when I was choosinhg between Atari and C64. Earlier I knew for def. I wanted a 48K Spectrum.

[@bearcubd3900]

I remmber getting a bunch of them in the early 90s from a mates house but moved to the states and they were thrown out,The Santa looked Awful Sinister.

[@richard-hawley]

Oh boy, I must remember the covers of hundreds of these magazines. Why are they occupying RAM space needed for more important things. The Memotech (I was lucky to own a 500, still have it today) was a hand-built machine, extruded aluminium case. No wonder it was expensive. The shop I used to work weekends at sold 2 of them (out the the 5 in stock), and one of those was mine. Hardly any software for it though. It was a dream to own the FDX (floppy drive) system for it, never did find one.

[@CoCoNationNews]

You should have gone through the Top 20 lists - they showed the top selling computers, games,etc across multiple platforms. I find that stuff fascinating. :)

[@TheLairdsLair]

I don't remember seeing any! If I had I would have definitely gone through them as that's something I always do in these videos. I'll look out for them when I do part 2.

[@JesterEric]

I got a few issues of this when they incorporated ST Update magazine 87. The magazine I would be reading at the time would be What Micro? Deciding which computer to get

[@disastermaster1413]

06:03 now that’s a heavy computer. 168 pounds in such a small device