Compute! (March 1987)

Compute! (March 1987)

Compute! was, in my opinion, the best multi-format computer magazine of the 1980s. I still preferred the Commodore 64 specific magazines but if you were looking for coverage of multiple computers, this was a great magazine. The March 1987 issue includes: Features

• Commodore's New, Expandable Amiga 2000: A Hands-On Report
• New Peripheral Technologies
• An introduction to Hard Disk Drives
• The New High-Quality Dot-Matrix Printers
• The Big Picture: Advances in Screen Display
• A Buyer's Guide to Printers
• Euchre

Reviews

• Little Computer People
• Certificate Maker and Walt Disney Cart & Party Shop
• Roadwar 2000

Columns and Departments

• The Editor's Notes
• Readers' Feedback
• Computers and Society: Demons and Events, Part 2
• Microscope
• Telecomputing Today: Packet-Switching Rule Changes
• The World Inside the Computer: When Buying a Computer: Don't Ask Me!
• The Beginner's Page: Getting Started with a Printer
• ST Outlook: Who Is That Man, and Why is He Smiling?
• AmigaView: The Sidecar Arrives
• IBM Personal Computing: Two Winners and a Laser
• INSIGHT: Atari - Corrected File Conversions

The Journal

• 3-D Surfaces for Amiga
• Fixing Atari Revision-B BASIC
• Custom Characters for Atari XL and XE
• Applecoder
• 128 File Viewer
• Filedump for IBM PC/PCjr
• DOS Calc
• Diskcheck: Apple Sector Editor for DOS 3.3
• 128 Editing Functions for Commodore 64
• Amiga Banner Printer
• Using PUT and GET on the PC/PCjr
• Superplotter

...and more!