{"id":35409,"date":"2025-04-30T23:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T03:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=35409"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:59:11","slug":"pc-world-september-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/pc-world-september-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"PC World (September 1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FPC_World%2F1985-09&amp;twg_show=PC_World_1985-09_001.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_001-735x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_001-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_001-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_001-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_001-1103x1536.jpg 1103w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_001-1471x2048.jpg 1471w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_001-86x120.jpg 86w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_001.jpg 1551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FPC_World%2F1985-09&amp;twg_show=PC_World_1985-09_001.jpg\" class=\"keychainify-checked\">PC World &#8211; September 1985<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>PC World was one of the most popular PC specific magazines from the 1980s through the 1990s and beyond. I didn&#8217;t even have my Commodore 64 yet it 1985 but if I had a PC, I probably would have been getting this magazine. The September 1985 issue includes:<\/p>\n<h1>Getting Started<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Theory PC<\/b> &#8211; The difficulty of communication via PC and how to make the PC universal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>From Here to Mainframe (and Back)<\/b> &#8211; How to use a PC to communicate with a mainframe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Community<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The PC as Innovator<\/b> &#8211; The quantum leap in productivity that the PC offers as well as its economic potential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Copying Software: Who&#8217;s Right?<\/b> &#8211; PC World readers chime in on software piracy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cautious Capital<\/b> &#8211; Where venture capitalist are putting their money in the context of the personal computer shakeout following the frenzy of 1981-1983.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=35412\" class=\"attachment wp-att-35412 keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_004-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_004-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_004-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_004-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_004-1089x1536.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_004-1452x2048.jpg 1452w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_004-85x120.jpg 85w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_004.jpg 1531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Review<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Personal Connection<\/b> &#8211; How computers have gone from being seen as rather Orwellian (perhaps still an accurate view) to fundamental tools of social communion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Reflex: Analysis With Finese<\/b> &#8211; A review of Reflex from Analytica, a software data analysis software package inspired by Lotus 1-2-3 and the Macintosh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ready to Run Accounting<\/b> &#8211; Ready-to-Run Accounting is a general ledger template for Lotus 1-2-3 and offers an inexpensive accounting solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Enable: Compact and Capable<\/b> &#8211; A five function integrated software package that includes word processing, spreadsheet, data management, graphics, and telecommunications components.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>And the Word Is Good<\/b> &#8211; Verson 2.0 of Microsoft Word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>State of the Art<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Asimov Ponders PCs<\/b> &#8211; Sci-Fi author Isaac Asimov writes about the increasing intelligence of computers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Experts on Call<\/b> &#8211; Expert Systems provide solutions or predictions based on facts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=35411\" class=\"attachment wp-att-35411 keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_005-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_005-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_005-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_005-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_005-1088x1536.jpg 1088w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_005-1451x2048.jpg 1451w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_005-85x120.jpg 85w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_005.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Hand On<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A Model for Peaceful Coexistence<\/b> &#8211; The PC&#8217;s place in corporations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dress Up Your Documents<\/b> &#8211; Creating fancy documents with the typesetting capabilities of word processing software like Microsoft Word and WordStar and laser printers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A New Way to Frame Projects<\/b> &#8211; Using Frameword o set up a simple scheduling system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Departments<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>David Bunnell<\/b> &#8211; Proof that unauthorized copies of software (i.e. pirated copies) sell software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ken Greenberg<\/b> &#8211; The PC&#8217;s trend towards business applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>John C. Dvorak<\/b> &#8211; Dvorak ponders whether the computer books and bookstores and software distribution channels is a dying trend. I remember buying Ace of Aces for my Commodore 64 at a Waldenbooks&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Letters<\/b> &#8211; Readers write in about mainframes, the virtual device interface, data management software, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PC World View<\/b> &#8211; How Vannevar Bush predicted the personal computer in something he called the &#8220;memex&#8221;; probate software; new PC clones; and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Help Screen<\/b> &#8211; Tips for automatic plotting, converting LaserJet escape codes into DOS commands, transferring text files from the Apple II to the PC; and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>From the Software Shelf<\/b> &#8211; PC World&#8217;s first impressions of software including Executive Writer\/Executive Filer, The Art of Negotiating, TallScreen, and pfs:access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Password: Communicate<\/b> &#8211; On-line queries using Dialog vs. gateway services; the fallout from a Los Angeles BBS operator getting charged for having a stolen telephone-credit card number on his BBS; Hayes starts selling Smartmodem 1200 in the U.K.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_364-740x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_364-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_364-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_364-768x1063.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_364-1110x1536.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_364-1480x2048.jpg 1480w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_364-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PC_World_1985-09_364.jpg 1561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PC World &#8211; September 1985 PC World was one of the most popular PC specific magazines from the 1980s through the 1990s and beyond. I didn&#8217;t even have my Commodore 64 yet it 1985 but if I had a PC, I probably would have been getting this magazine. The September 1985 issue includes: Getting Started Theory PC &#8211; The difficulty of communication via PC and how to make the PC universal. From Here to Mainframe (and Back) &#8211; How to use a PC to communicate with a mainframe. Community The PC as Innovator &#8211; The quantum leap in productivity that the PC offers as well as its economic potential. Copying Software: Who&#8217;s Right? &#8211; PC World readers chime in on software piracy. Cautious Capital &#8211; Where venture capitalist are putting their money in the context of the personal computer shakeout following the frenzy of 1981-1983. Review The Personal Connection &#8211; How computers have gone from being seen as rather Orwellian (perhaps still an accurate view) to fundamental tools of social communion. Reflex: Analysis With Finese &#8211; A review of Reflex from Analytica, a software data analysis software package inspired by Lotus 1-2-3 and the Macintosh. Ready to Run Accounting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[486,600,2835,1304,3947,2362],"class_list":["post-35409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-dos","tag-computers","tag-dos","tag-magazine","tag-pc","tag-pc-world","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35409","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=35409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35445,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35409\/revisions\/35445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}