Cover of the September 1985 issue of PC World
PC World was one of the most popular PC specific magazines from the 1980s through the 1990s and beyond. I didn't even have my Commodore 64 yet it 1985 but if I had a PC, I probably would have been getting this magazine. The September 1985 issue includes:
Getting Started
- Theory PC - The difficulty of communication via PC and how to make the PC universal.
- From Here to Mainframe (and Back) - How to use a PC to communicate with a mainframe.
Community
- The PC as Innovator - The quantum leap in productivity that the PC offers as well as its economic potential.
- Copying Software: Who's Right? - PC World readers chime in on software piracy.
Table of Contents from the September 1985 issue of PC World
Review
- The Personal Connection - How computers have gone from being seen as rather Orwellian (perhaps still an accurate view) to fundamental tools of social communion.
- Reflex: Analysis With Finese - A review of Reflex from Analytica, a software data analysis software package inspired by Lotus 1-2-3 and the Macintosh.
- Ready to Run Accounting - Ready-to-Run Accounting is a general ledger template for Lotus 1-2-3 and offers an inexpensive accounting solution.
State of the Art
- Asimov Ponders PCs - Sci-Fi author Isaac Asimov writes about the increasing intelligence of computers.
- Experts on Call - Expert Systems provide solutions or predictions based on facts.
Table of Contents from the September 1985 issue of PC World (continued)
Hand On
- A Model for Peaceful Coexistence - The PC's place in corporations.
- Dress Up Your Documents - Creating fancy documents with the typesetting capabilities of word processing software like Microsoft Word and WordStar and laser printers.
Departments
- David Bunnell - Proof that unauthorized copies of software (i.e. pirated copies) sell software.
- Ken Greenberg - The PC's trend towards business applications.
- John C. Dvorak - Dvorak ponders whether the computer books and bookstores and software distribution channels is a dying trend. I remember buying Ace of Aces for my Commodore 64 at a Waldenbooks...
- Letters - Readers write in about mainframes, the virtual device interface, data management software, and more.
- PC World View - How Vannevar Bush predicted the personal computer in something he called the "memex"; probate software; new PC clones; and more.
Back cover of the September 1985 issue of PC World
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