Issue 4.8 (May 1986)

In Volume 4, Issue 8 along with letters, the bookclub and classifieds you will find...

• News, gossip and snippets from the industry
• A review of the Compaq Portable II
• A review of the Kaypro 2000 LCD Laptop
• Multiuser systems - A perusal of PICK
• A review of Fastback: A very fast, floppy back-up of a hard disk
• The PC86 catalogue and seminar programme
• Pascal Programming - For beginners and experts
• Micros at work - All-in-one accounting software/MicroLab
• Commodore going for the business market
• Machine Language - DIY BASIC (Part III) - More keywords to stretch BASIC
• Columns for
• IBM - Mind Probe (Review), Hardcard and Omnireader
• Spectravideo - Sprite animator, Graph presenter (reviews) and producing sprite characters identical to the character set (listing)
• Commodore - Some notes on Riteman C+ and Print Shop (review)
• BBC - The uses of Teletext screens
• Apple II - Recovering deleted files
• Sega - Moving simple shapes (listing)
• Atari - Review of Syncalc, Synfile and Syntrend
• Amstrad - Three program constructs
• Spectrum - Pitfalls in buying second-hand

...and the usual collection of classic computer advertisements!

Many thanks to Andrew Stephen for providing this issue to be scanned. This page last edited 4th April, 2012