{"id":24002,"date":"2019-11-25T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=24002"},"modified":"2019-12-09T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:03:20","slug":"compute-march-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/25\/compute-march-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Compute! (March 1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCompute%21%2F1987-03&amp;twg_show=Compute_Issue_082_1987_Mar-001.jpg\" class=\"steem-keychain-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Compute_Issue_082_1987_Mar-001-739x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCompute%21%2F1987-03&amp;twg_show=Compute_Issue_082_1987_Mar-001.jpg\" class=\"steem-keychain-checked\">Compute! &#8211; Issue Number 82 &#8211; March 1987<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p>Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commodore&#8217;s New, Expandable Amiga 2000: A Hands-On Report<\/li>\n<li><b>New Peripheral Technologies<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>An introduction to Hard Disk Drives<\/li>\n<li>The New High-Quality Dot-Matrix Printers<\/li>\n<li>The Big Picture: Advances in Screen Display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>A Buyer&#8217;s Guide to Printers<\/li>\n<li>Euchre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reviews<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Little Computer People<\/li>\n<li>Certificate Maker and Walt Disney Cart &amp; Party Shop<\/li>\n<li>Roadwar 2000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Columns and Departments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Editor&#8217;s Notes<\/li>\n<li>Readers&#8217; Feedback<\/li>\n<li>Computers and Society: Demons and Events, Part 2<\/li>\n<li>Microscope<\/li>\n<li>Telecomputing Today: Packet-Switching Rule Changes<\/li>\n<li>The World Inside the Computer: When Buying a Computer: Don&#8217;t Ask Me!<\/li>\n<li>The Beginner&#8217;s Page: Getting Started with a Printer<\/li>\n<li>ST Outlook: Who Is That Man, and Why is He Smiling?<\/li>\n<li>AmigaView: The Sidecar Arrives<\/li>\n<li>IBM Personal Computing: Two Winners and a Laser<\/li>\n<li>INSIGHT: Atari &#8211; Corrected File Conversions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Journal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3-D Surfaces for Amiga<\/li>\n<li>Fixing Atari Revision-B BASIC<\/li>\n<li>Custom Characters for Atari XL and XE<\/li>\n<li>Applecoder<\/li>\n<li>128 File Viewer<\/li>\n<li>Filedump for IBM PC\/PCjr<\/li>\n<li>DOS Calc<\/li>\n<li>Diskcheck: Apple Sector Editor for DOS 3.3<\/li>\n<li>128 Editing Functions for Commodore 64<\/li>\n<li>Amiga Banner Printer<\/li>\n<li>Using PUT and GET on the PC\/PCjr<\/li>\n<li>Superplotter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Compute! &#8211; Issue Number 82 &#8211; 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&#8217;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&#8217;s Guide to Printers Euchre Reviews Little Computer People Certificate Maker and Walt Disney Cart &amp; Party Shop Roadwar 2000 Columns and Departments The Editor&#8217;s Notes Readers&#8217; 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&#8217;t Ask Me! The Beginner&#8217;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 &#8211; 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: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[169,196,225,370,471,473,1304,1310,2362],"class_list":["post-24002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-amiga","tag-apple-ii","tag-atari","tag-c64","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-pc","tag-pcjr","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}