Compute!, at least in its earlier days, exclusively covered computers based on the 6502 CPU. In early 1982 these included the Commodore PET, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, VIC-20, and others. The January 1982 issue includes:
Columns
The Editor's Notes - Atari goes after creators of Atari game clones.
Ask The Readers - Questions asked and answerd about chaining programs in BASIC on Commodore computers, the future of the 6502, software protection, accessing all 48K of RAM on the Atari, and more.
Computers And Society - An article on the Turing test and measuring artificial intelligence.
Applications
INVEST - A BASIC type-in program for helping you to calculate various things with regards to realestate investing.
Developing A Business Algorithm - Creating a program to perform various business calculations including things like interest, lease calculations, taxes, and more.
Anti-Hesitation Programming: A Tutorial on Arrays - Getting around slowness when using arrays in Microsoft BASIC.
Education
Friends Of The Turtle - A new society with the goal of promoting turtle graphics with languages such as Atari PILOT, TI LOGO, and Apple LOGO.
Learning With Computers - A look at how computers might change schools in the future.
The Apple Gazette
Apple Addresses - Hexadecimal and decimal addressing on the Apple II.
More Apple Hi-Res Shape Writer - A type-in program for creating hi-res shapes on the Apple II.
Lower Case With Unmodified Apple - A program that allow you to use lower case letters without hardware modification on the Apple II.
