_{Cover of the September 1990 issue of PC World}

PC World was one of the most popular PC specific magazines for a long time throughout a good portion of the 1980s, the 1990s, and well into the 2000s. The September 1990 issue includes:

Previews

• 1-2-3 Meets Windows Halfway - Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.1 added a graphical user interface. It could also run under Windows 3.0 but not with its GUI. It is still basically a DOS program at this point.


• NEC Pushes Laptop Power - An early look at the NEC UltraLite 286V laptop which includes a 12-MHz 286 CPU, 20MB hard disk, VGA display, 1 MB of RAM, and an external 3.5-inch floppy drive for $3999.

Reviews

• Do Presentation Manager Spreadsheets Have the Right Stuff? - Reviews of the OS/2 versions of Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel and comparison with the Windows versions.


• Fonts Unlimited: Seven Smart Lasers for Under $3000 - Reviews of what were at the time relatively low-cost laser printers including the Canon LBP-4, HP LaserJet IIP, HP LaserJet III, IBM LaserPrinter, IBM LaserPrinter E, and Okidata OkiLaser 820.

_{Table of Contents from the September 1990 issue of PC World}

Features

• The Spreadsheet Connection: From Data Base to Decision - A look at add-ins for allowing spreadsheets to get data out of a database.


• Buyers' Guide: 80MB Upgrades - A guide to 80MB (give or take) hard drive upgrades. A number of hard drives are examined here including models from CMS, Core International, Cumulus, Fujitsu, Hard Drives International, IBM, Miniscribe, Microscience International, Plus Development, Procom Technology, Quantum, Syquest, Teac, and Western Digital. Prices range from $650 to nearly $1500.

News

• Top of the News - Lotus Sues Borland over Quattro Pro interface, AST and Airis to offer laptops that run on alkaline batteries, GeoWorks to offer GEOS for XT based computers, Tandy introduces the Tandy 1000 RL, Compaq launches Deskpro 486/33L, Deskpro 386/33L, and Systempro models which include EISA bus and 33 MHz version of 486 chip, and more.


• Industry Outlook - IBM introduces AT based PS/1 for home office users; Symantec and Norton merge; multiprocessor PC based servers replace minicomputers; and more.

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How To

• PC World's Guide to Painless Backups - A guide to backing up your PCs hard drive to floppies including advice on partitioning your hard drive.


• Words Into Print - Moving your word processing documents to desktop publishing software.


• Spreadsheets (A-Z) - Streamlining Lotus 1-2-3's database functions with macros.

Departments

• Richard Landry - Borland and Lotus battle over spreadsheet interface copyright.


• Letters - Letters from readers about users' rights, Northgate, fonts, WordPerfect, and more.


• The Help Screen - Keeping your floppy disks safe from your phone, modems, and other heat and magnetic field generating items; using multiple AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS configurations; maximum DOS command length; and more.


• Consumer Watch - Advice for buying a used PC.

_{Back cover of the September 1990 issue of PC World}

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