Computer Shopper was huge in the UK too. It had the most comprehensive list of outlets in the UK, some of the ads ran to a dozen pages.
AS you posted this US ad, I would note that it always pissed us Brit geeks off that you guys were paying the same in dollars as we were in GBP usually, especially annoying when I had both the US Radio Shack catalogue which I compared with its UK Tandy equivalent although the fact my brother was a manager of a Tandy did get me some decent discounts!
Have a great weekend full of happy memories of those halcyon days!
RE: Computer Direct (May 1985)