{"id":36115,"date":"2025-10-26T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=36115"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:09:18","slug":"pc-magazine-august-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/10\/26\/pc-magazine-august-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Magazine (August 1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FPC_Magazine%2F1982-08&amp;twg_show=PC_Magazine_1982-08_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_001-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_001-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_001-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_001-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_001-1089x1536.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_001-1452x2048.jpg 1452w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_001-85x120.jpg 85w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_001.jpg 1531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The IBM PC was a year old when this issue of Pc Magazine was on the stands. Going by page count, which was over 225 pages for this issue, there was already a ton of advertising behind PC products. The August 1982 issue of PC Magazine includes:<\/p>\n<h1>PC Interview<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>An Interview with VisiCalc Entrepreneur Daniel Fylstra<\/b> &#8211; A look at the history of VisiCalc and VisiCorp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Business<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The More PCs the Merrier<\/b> &#8211; IBM offers discounts on very large purchases (in the hundres or thousands of units).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Events<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>NCC Roundup<\/b> &#8211; A look at what was to be seen at the National Computer Conference in Houston, Texas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Of Camesl and Tents<\/b> &#8211; A look back at the past five years of the NCC and personal computing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Finance<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>How Much Are You Really Worth?<\/b> &#8211; Calculating your net worth with a PC and spreadsheet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Software<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Calc Wars<\/b> &#8211; Testing SuperCalc and comparing it to VisiCalc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Challenger: Multiplan<\/b> &#8211; A review of Multiplan, Microsoft&#8217;s new spreadsheet program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Marketplace<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mega Forces Unite<\/b> &#8211; Sears introduces 45 new business centers with the IBM PC as the lead item.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=36118\" class=\"attachment wp-att-36118\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_006-740x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_006-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_006-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_006-768x1063.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_006-1110x1536.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_006-1480x2048.jpg 1480w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_006-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_006.jpg 1561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Operating Systems<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Bithood Question<\/b> &#8211; 8- vs. 16- vs. 32-bit CPUs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IBM Updates DOS to 1.10<\/b> &#8211; DOS 1.10 added features such as the ability to handle dual-sided 320K disk drives, improved disk I\/O speed, improved copy and dir commands, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>PC profile<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Computer that&#8217;s Literally for the Birds<\/b> &#8211; How one ornithologist uses a custom database program and VisiCalc to keep track of bird data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Communications<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PC-Talk<\/b> &#8211; A free communications program for the PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Books<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A Tool for the Layperson<\/b> &#8211; A review of the book IBM Personal Computer: An Introduction to Programming and Applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Product Reports<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PC Reviews the Smith-Corona TP-1 Printer<\/b> &#8211; A letter quality daisy wheel printer for about $700.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>PC Lab<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PC Takes a Look at IBM&#8217;s Pascal Compiler<\/b> &#8211; A review of this early Pascal compiler for the PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Follow-Up<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>EasyWriter Resurrected<\/b> &#8211; A look at this improved version of the EasyWriter word processor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>New Software Submission Guidelines from IBM<\/b> &#8211; Highlights of IBM&#8217;s new software submission guidelines for those that want to try to have their software sold by IBM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>At Home<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Computer Workstead<\/b> &#8211; Working at home with your PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=36117\" class=\"attachment wp-att-36117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_007-739x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_007-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_007-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_007-768x1064.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_007-1109x1536.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_007-1478x2048.jpg 1478w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_007-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_007.jpg 1559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Book Exerpt<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>VisiCalc and Your Stock Portfolio<\/b> &#8211; An excerpt from VisiCalc Home and Office Companion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Age of Altair<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Grand and Glorious Crusade<\/b> &#8211; One in a series of articles about the history of the Altair computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Columns<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>David Bunnell<\/b> &#8211; The software publishing jungle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Zero Base Thinking<\/b> &#8211; How e-mail systems help to keep things from falling through the cracks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Jean Yates &amp; Dr. Rebecca Thomas<\/b> &#8211; An idea for a low-cost dedicated VisiCalc machine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Departments<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Letters to PC<\/b> &#8211; Letters from readers about adding a customer service card, copy protected software, IBM employee sales, adding a an MP1 B51 drive to the PC, speeding up disk drive access, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PCommuniques<\/b> &#8211; Keeping your PC cool; reduced price 64K expansion board; Zork released for the PC; electronic greeting cards; King James Bible released on disk; successor to the PC may have 8087 math coprocessor; four new computers announced that are software compatible with the PC; and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>User-to-User<\/b> &#8211; A look at the bugs fixed in the V1.05 update to BASICA, BASIC programming tips, PASCAL tips, printing with the NEC Spinwriter 3530, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Book Briefs<\/b> &#8211; A look at new books including A User Guide to the UNIX System and Introduction to WordStar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>New on the Market<\/b> &#8211; A brief look at new PC related products including 64K-256K memory boards from Micro Match, the Intel 8087 Chip, the DataSouth DS180 dot matrix printer, a joystick from TG Products, the Move-It communications program, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PC Tutor<\/b> &#8211; Using an autoexec.bat file, solving double character problems with The Source and the IBM Asynchronous Communications Support program, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_227-718x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_227-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_227-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_227-768x1096.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_227-1077x1536.jpg 1077w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_227-1435x2048.jpg 1435w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_227-84x120.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC_Magazine_1982-08_227.jpg 1514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IBM PC was a year old when this issue of Pc Magazine was on the stands. Going by page count, which was over 225 pages for this issue, there was already a ton of advertising behind PC products. The August 1982 issue of PC Magazine includes: PC Interview An Interview with VisiCalc Entrepreneur Daniel Fylstra &#8211; A look at the history of VisiCalc and VisiCorp. Business The More PCs the Merrier &#8211; IBM offers discounts on very large purchases (in the hundres or thousands of units). Events NCC Roundup &#8211; A look at what was to be seen at the National Computer Conference in Houston, Texas. Of Camesl and Tents &#8211; A look back at the past five years of the NCC and personal computing. Finance How Much Are You Really Worth? &#8211; Calculating your net worth with a PC and spreadsheet. Software Calc Wars &#8211; Testing SuperCalc and comparing it to VisiCalc. The Challenger: Multiplan &#8211; A review of Multiplan, Microsoft&#8217;s new spreadsheet program. Marketplace Mega Forces Unite &#8211; Sears introduces 45 new business centers with the IBM PC as the lead item. Operating Systems The Bithood Question &#8211; 8- vs. 16- vs. 32-bit CPUs. IBM Updates DOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[486,600,880,881,1304,2362],"class_list":["post-36115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-dos","tag-computers","tag-dos","tag-ibm","tag-ibm-pc","tag-pc","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36115","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=36115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36302,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36115\/revisions\/36302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}