Re: Which clone was first -magazine ads.

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

"Tom Zuchowski" (Eamoncd@bellsouth.net) writes:
> "Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> news:Rj8Ub.89654$U%5.469630@attbi_s03...
>> I went through my Byte magazines yesterday, looking for old Apple clone
> ads,
>> and I discovered that the earliest ads that I could find were for the
>> Franklin Ace 100 and the Pineapple. They both appeared in the same month
>> -June 1982.
>>
>> Were there any Apple II magazines in print at that time, or before? I
> would
>> be interested to know if there were any clone ads before June 1982, in any
>> other magazines. Looking for old ads might help to at least narrow the
>> choices for which clone was first. If any of you have any of those old
>> magazines, you might look at the early 1982 editions to see if there are
>> any earlier ads.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> E.
> 
> You already know of Byte as a general-computing magazine that covered the
> Apple II. A couple of my favorite games came from the pages of Byte.
> 
> Another such magazine was Micro, which was a 6502 journal and had a lot of
> really good Apple stuff in it and was a gold mine of info for programming
> the 6502. When I got into the Apple II game in 1980, I considered Micro and
> Nibble to be my primary sources, pretty much in that order at first, though
> Micro faded over time.
> 
> Tom Zuchowski
> 
> 
I was thinking of Micro too.  At that stage of the game, when computers
still hadn't spread too widely, you didn't need an Apple specific magazine
so much.  But if you had  6502-base system of some kind, it was nice
to have articles about the cpu (which could often translate to another
computer) rather than wade through the mostly 8080-based Byte.

When did Compute! start up?  That was more a magazine for the masses,
and again was not Apple specific, but it was 6502 specific.

   Micahel