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
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