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In 1985, MAD published an issue with a special section on computers. Mind if I tweet some of it?
Art by Al Jaffee, who recently turned 99 and only just retired from doing the MAD fold-in.
Every look at computers needs some Don Martin.
An interview with a thinly-veiled version of Commodore’s Jack Tramiel. Art isn’t by Mort Drucker, but by Harry North Jr., who (like almost everyone else who did carticatures for MAD) worked in a decidedly Drucker-esque vein.
Did I just say MAD caricaturists all worked in a Mort Drucker-esque vein? Wrong!
In a strange way, computers were funnier in the 1980s than they are today.
Still funny, and has art by Jack Davis.
What, no TRS-80 version? (I may type this into my Atari 400.)
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