Cover of the September 4th, 1984 issue of PC Magazine
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.
Table of Contents from the September 4th, 1984 issue of PC Magazine
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.
Table of Contents from the September 4th, 1984 issue of PC Magazine (continued)
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.
Back cover of the September 4th, 1984 issue of PC Magazine