Computer Ads from the Past

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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II

Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over realistic scenery...

Apr 03, 2026
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From the September 1985 issue of Family Computing magazine
From the September 1985 issue of Family Computing magazine

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In the early 1970s, two chaps (Bruce Artwick and Stu Moment) were attending the University of Illinois. Bruce was studying computer engineering, while Stu was focusing on the arcane world of marketing.1 (My major was marketing, too.) Stu financed his higher education journey by working as a flying instructor. Eventually, all things being equal, Stu taught Bruce to fly. At the time, Bruce was working on a “microprocessor based 3D graphics package” for his Master’s thesis. (His finished thesis was entitled “A Versatile Computer-Generated Dynamic Flight Display”.2)

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