_{Cover of the August 1982 issue of PC Magazine}

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.

_{Table of Contents from the August 1982 issue of PC Magazine}

Operating Systems

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.

_{Table of Contents from the August 1982 issue of PC Magazine (continued)}

Book Excerpt

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.

_{Back cover of the August 1982 issue of PC Magazine}

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