The IBM PC was a year old when this issue of Pc Magazine was on the stands. Going by page count, which was over 225 pages for this issue, there was already a ton of advertising behind PC products. The August 1982 issue of PC Magazine includes:
PC Interview
An Interview with VisiCalc Entrepreneur Daniel Fylstra - A look at the history of VisiCalc and VisiCorp.
Business
The More PCs the Merrier - IBM offers discounts on very large purchases (in the hundres or thousands of units).
Events
NCC Roundup - A look at what was to be seen at the National Computer Conference in Houston, Texas.
Of Camesl and Tents - A look back at the past five years of the NCC and personal computing.
Finance
How Much Are You Really Worth? - Calculating your net worth with a PC and spreadsheet.
The Bithood Question - 8- vs. 16- vs. 32-bit CPUs.
IBM Updates DOS to 1.10 - DOS 1.10 added features such as the ability to handle dual-sided 320K disk drives, improved disk I/O speed, improved copy and dir commands, and more.
PC profile
The Computer that's Literally for the Birds - How one ornithologist uses a custom database program and VisiCalc to keep track of bird data.
Communications
PC-Talk - A free communications program for the PC.
Books
A Tool for the Layperson - A review of the book IBM Personal Computer: An Introduction to Programming and Applications.
Product Reports
PC Reviews the Smith-Corona TP-1 Printer - A letter quality daisy wheel printer for about $700.
PC Lab
PC Takes a Look at IBM's Pascal Compiler - A review of this early Pascal compiler for the PC.
VisiCalc and Your Stock Portfolio - An excerpt from VisiCalc Home and Office Companion.
Age of Altair
The Grand and Glorious Crusade - One in a series of articles about the history of the Altair computer.
Columns
David Bunnell - The software publishing jungle.
Zero Base Thinking - How e-mail systems help to keep things from falling through the cracks.
Departments
Letters to PC - Letters from readers about adding a customer service card, copy protected software, IBM employee sales, adding a an MP1 B51 drive to the PC, speeding up disk drive access, and more.
PCommuniques - Keeping your PC cool; reduced price 64K expansion board; Zork released for the PC; electronic greeting cards; King James Bible released on disk; successor to the PC may have 8087 math coprocessor; four new computers announced that are software compatible with the PC; and more.
User-to-User - A look at the bugs fixed in the V1.05 update to BASICA, BASIC programming tips, PASCAL tips, printing with the NEC Spinwriter 3530, and more.
Book Briefs - A look at new books including A User Guide to the UNIX System and Introduction to WordStar.
