K-Power was a magazine oriented towards teens published in 1984. Only eight standalone issues were published until it merged with Family Computing and became an insert there. The July/August 1984 issue includes:
Features
- How Teen Tycoons Take Care of Business - Some savvy hackers make big dough with their computer skills. How you can, too!
- Computer Comix - Here's a "Gee, Whiz!" another K-Power laff-riot!
- Computers Go for the Gold - Will computers help cyclist Rebecca Twigg or archer Becky Liggett win a Gold Medal?
- K-Power Picks - Olympics software get K-Power's highest rating.
- Test Run: IBM PCjr - Forget the rest - read the best! K-Power tells you how the much-heralded PCjr really rates.
- The Making of a Hacker - Can anyone be a hacker? According to Andrea Leptich, the answer is Yes!
Programming
- Hacker Heaven - A 16-page pullout crammed with programs!
- Compucopia - Byte-size programs.
- Microtones - A new computer-music column with programs and music news!
Products
- Screening Room - Software reviews and strategy.
- Strategy - Exodus: Ultima III - How to kill the evil Exodus and save a world.
Departments
- Editor's Note - Introducing the K-Base - a computing pen-pal system.
- Logon - Letters from you.
- Compuzine - The experts talk piracy. Plus, Silicon Alley and Scrolling in Dough.
- Dr. Kursor's Klinic - Where the word "hacker" comes from; what an RGB monitor is.
- K-Net - The winners of the K-Power "Win-a-Modem" contest. Plus, how the K-Net works!