 Subscriptions were offered that included the printed magazine and a cassette tape, and later 5¼-inch floppy disks, to be literally "played" into the input port to load the complete program into the subscriber's personal computer.Like many computer publications of the time, "SoftSide" faced considerable financial pressure and competition in an industry-wide shakeout of personal computer publications in 1983.As a result, Robitaille reorganized the publication into two new magazines