Source: PC Magazine – September 4th, 1984

PC Magazine was one of the earliest successful PC magazines to pop-up after the IBM PC was introduced and one of the most popular and longest lasting. The September 4th, 1984 issue includes:

Cover Story

• The Word on Word Processors – An overview of 19 of the most popular word processors on the PC.

Features

• An Attache from Down Under – Attache Software originated in Australia and sold a line of accounting software.

• Milk, Butter, Cheese, and PCs – How Stew Leonard’s World’s Greatest Dairy Store uses nine PCs to manage the company.

• Project: Database, Part 7 – A continuing series that covers the latest in database software. This issue includes coverage of Savvy PC, power-base, SALVO, Revelation, DataBlux (version 10), DataFlex (Version 2.0), PC FOCUS, Informia (Version 2.11), dBASE III, and more.

• How to Be Your Own Best Financial Advisor – A detailed look at Managing Your Money, a personal finance program written by best-selling financial author Andrew Tobias.

Pro Columns

• Accounting for Contractors – A look at accounting software useful to contractors.

• Coping with Complexity :PCs in Neurobiology – How the PC, along with analog-to-digital converters, is helping scientists at the University of Illinois to study nerve cell plasticity in marine mollusks.

• Bank Market Analysis on the PC – How an integrated software package featuring a database management system can help banks organize customer data.

• Courseware Design – How interactive courseware improves upon books, pencils and paper in a classroom environment.

• Writing in dBASE II – Two dBASE II applications. The first automatically executes a command file and the other is a MailMerge program.

• Low Budget Communications – A look at a few low budget modems including the Hayes Smartmodem 300, Novation j-CAT, Volksmodem, and the LEX-11 and LEX-12.

Departments

• PC News – New machines from Tava, ACT, and Polo; the possible demise of DOS; a 74 MB drive from Tecmar designed for PCs used as fileservers; and more.

• Consumer Guinea Pigs – How the software industry is using consumers to beta test its software.

• Computers in the Humanities – What computers have to offer in the humanities including preparation, communication art and music.

• Letters to PC – Letters from readers about terminal software, IBM’s blinking cursor, macros for Lotus 1-2-3, the future of the PC, and more.

• Support and Control in Flabby Programs – System programs vs. application programs and things that affect program size.

• Cool Caterpillar – Review of a maze-chase game featuring a caterpillar called Changes from Tigervision and a game called Mr. Cool which is sort of like Q-Bert. I had the latter one for the Commodore 64.

• New on the Market – A brief look at new computer hardware and software including the Multifunction GPIB Controller, DataPort Letter Quality Printer, RGB-1400PC monitor, S/COM Cache Cartridge, DMP-51 High-Speed Plotter, PCjr Pro-Kit, and more.

• User-To-User – Macros and other tips and tricks for Lotus 1-2-3,

• PC Tutor – How to check if a printer is online via BASIC plus questions answered about memory speed, maximum memory in various PC models, and more.

…and more!