Believe me or not, but I loved the ads in early PC Magazine (that I usually read as a kid a couple months later in my public library in Brazil thanks to some unknown subscriber’s donation).
I used to daydream about the equipment in the ads like other kids did with cars in car magazines
There was a huge magazine called Computer Shopper back in the day. It wasn't 100% ads but it was a very high percentage of ads peppered with mostly pretty formulaic articles.
>Believe me or not, but I loved the ads in early PC Magazine
I believe you, ha ha. I used to do the same, with both PC Magazine and BYTE.
And with DDJ and CUJ too. :)
(Dr. Dobbs Journal and C Users Journal. Both of those had high quality articles on software topics, back then, and for many years.)
I used to daydream about the equipment in the ads like other kids did with cars in car magazines