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Lot #4177
Paul Terrell's Vintage Computing Magazine Collection (7)

Estimate: $500+

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Description

Collection of seven issues of computer magazines and publication, primarily from the mid-1970s, including:

- Creative Computing: The Magazine of Recreational and Educational Computing (September/October 1976)
- Creative Computing: The Magazine of Recreational and Educational Computing (November/December 1976)
- Kilobaud: The Computer Hobbyist Magazine, Issue #1 (January 1977)
- Byte Shopper: The Affordable Computer Catalog (Fall 1977)
- What to Do After You Hit Return, or P.C.C.'s First Book of Computer Games (People's Computer Company, 1977)
- People's Computers (September/October 1978)
- Creative Computing: The # Magazine of Computer Applications and Software (November 1984, 10th Anniversary Edition)

In overall fine condition.

Provenance: from the personal collection of Byte Shop founder Paul Terrell.

Together, these publications capture the formative moment when personal computing was still a grassroots movement, driven by hobbyists, educators, programmers, and early retailers who shared software, circuitry, ideas, and enthusiasm through small-circulation magazines and catalogs. With provenance from Paul Terrell—the Byte Shop founder whose 1976 Apple-1 order helped launch Apple Computer—the group offers a vivid cross-section of the print culture that nurtured the microcomputer revolution before the industry became mainstream.


From the Paul Terrell Collection

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