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PC Magazine (September 4th, 1984)

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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