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Comment by adamrezich | Hacker News Reader

is there any place on the web where one can peruse PC Magazine issues from the 90s? I was looking for one last night and couldn't find anything like it.

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Here are a couple

https://archive.org/details/pc-magazine-best-products-of-199...

https://archive.org/details/pcmagazine-v13n17

Probably more of them too, there on archive.org

Wonderful! Thanks a lot for the link! Oh man, reading that end of year 1994 issue brings out a lot of memories. An IBM Thinkpad 755CD cost $7600 USD!!! and those advertisements for everything else: the design language, the words, the double entendre, those were the times.

These are freely available via Google Books, and also searchable: https://books.google.com/books/about/PC_Mag.html?id=w_OhaFDe...

Some are. Per my other comment, pretty incomplete--though welcome even as such.

I counted 215 issues online for the 90s decade. What is missing?

So as a weekly...

Not a criticism, but most of these sources are not comprehensive.

[I'm wrong in the case of PC Mag.]

"PC Magazine uses Google Books as the official archive of its 27 years as a print publication."

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/PCMag#Early_transition_to_square...

PC Mag was never weekly. Its all there.

My bad. I remembered it as a weekly.

Still, many of the mags of the era are still incompletely archived if at all.

Per other comment, there are a fair number of computer magazine issues from that era on the Internet Archive. But it's mostly very incomplete if you're looking for something specific.

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