PC World (September 1985)

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_{Cover of the September 1985 issue of PC World}

PC World was one of the most popular PC specific magazines from the 1980s through the 1990s and beyond. I didn'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 - The difficulty of communication via PC and how to make the PC universal.

From Here to Mainframe (and Back) - How to use a PC to communicate with a mainframe.

Community

The PC as Innovator - The quantum leap in productivity that the PC offers as well as its economic potential.

Copying Software: Who's Right? - PC World readers chime in on software piracy.

Cautious Capital - Where venture capitalist are putting their money in the context of the personal computer shakeout following the frenzy of 1981-1983.

_{Table of Contents from the September 1985 issue of PC World}

Review

The Personal Connection - 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 - 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 - Ready-to-Run Accounting is a general ledger template for Lotus 1-2-3 and offers an inexpensive accounting solution.

Enable: Compact and Capable - A five function integrated software package that includes word processing, spreadsheet, data management, graphics, and telecommunications components.

And the Word Is Good - Verson 2.0 of Microsoft Word.

State of the Art

Asimov Ponders PCs - Sci-Fi author Isaac Asimov writes about the increasing intelligence of computers.

Experts on Call - Expert Systems provide solutions or predictions based on facts.

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Hand On

A Model for Peaceful Coexistence - The PC's place in corporations.

Dress Up Your Documents - Creating fancy documents with the typesetting capabilities of word processing software like Microsoft Word and WordStar and laser printers.

A New Way to Frame Projects - Using Frameword o set up a simple scheduling system.

Departments

David Bunnell - Proof that unauthorized copies of software (i.e. pirated copies) sell software.

Ken Greenberg - The PC's trend towards business applications.

John C. Dvorak - 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...

Letters - Readers write in about mainframes, the virtual device interface, data management software, and more.

PC World View - How Vannevar Bush predicted the personal computer in something he called the "memex"; probate software; new PC clones; and more.

The Help Screen - Tips for automatic plotting, converting LaserJet escape codes into DOS commands, transferring text files from the Apple II to the PC; and more.

From the Software Shelf - PC World's first impressions of software including Executive Writer/Executive Filer, The Art of Negotiating, TallScreen, and pfs:access.