At least three-quarters of my Computes were lost in various moves over the last forty years, but I’ve held on to a few… I have this issue somewhere in a closet.
Why did I hold on to this particular one? I have no damned idea. Compute had actually gotten a bit bland by that point… it was a breezy-nerdy enthusiast magazine in the early days, but as the computer-owning audience became less technical, it became glossier— in every sense of the word. When it died, I didn’t really miss it.
Unlike Compute’s Gazette, Byte, Ahoy!, STart, Amiga World, Electronic Games (not EGM!), Computer Gaming World, and Boardwatch, all of which I mourned.