ComputorEdge Magazine was first published on May 16, 1983 as The Byte Buyer in San Diego, California.
By the mid-1990s, it was publishing weekly, which led to a situation in which many of the businesses that advertised in ComputorEdge, angered by having to pay more to have their ads in each issue (since there were now twice as many issues per year), encouraged the launch of several competing computer magazines in San Diego.
The first person hired by the publishers to serve as editor was Dan Gookin, who later wrote the best-selling "DOS for Dummies" tutorial books.
Beginning in the late 1980s, the magazine began printing a list of all the public dial-up computer bulletin-board systems, or BBSs, in San Diego County.
After more than 24 years of publishing in San Diego, the last paper issue of the magazine was printed on December 28, 2007.