If you remember the computer magazines of this era at all, you recall how thick they were—hundreds and hundreds of pages an issue in the case of the most successful ones. The majority of those pages were ads, not editorial content. And a sizable chunk of those ads were catalog y in the extreme. Pages and pages were devoted to lists of products and prices in teensy type, with 1 800 numbers you could call to place an order. About a gazillion mail order houses did business this way. The April 1991...
