I’m sure I must have seen the cover of the July 1983 issue of 80 Micro at the time, but its whimsy was likely lost on my 17 year old self.
I especially appreciate that at the heart of the whimsical map lies Peterborough, the actual home of 80 Micro, and, for a time, the heart of the computer magazine publishing region of North America (I have more than a few colleagues, past and present, who spent time working with Wayne Green over the years).
Bruce Stephenson is credit as the illustrator for the cover.
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Oh, how I would have read
Oh, how I would have read that cover to cover in '83, the first year I got to spend a lot of time behind a TRS-80 model 1, later a model 4. No such magazines around where I was. $4 in 1983 an online calculator says is $10.55 in 2020. Would have been a serious price point for a mag for me as a 13yr old.
As a Model 100 owner at the
As a Model 100 owner at the time (still have it in the closet), I owned that very issue (I recognize the great cover), and I may even still have it.
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