Issue 5.8 (May 1987)

Issue scanned by Richard Goulstone
(Many thanks Richard!)

In Volume 5, Issue 8 along with letters, Q+As and classifieds you will find...

• News, gossip and snippets from the industry
• A review of the Macintosh SE
• A review of the Compaq Deskpro 386
• A review of Lotus Manuscript: a word processing package for technical documents
• A review of the Psion Organiser
• Computing in tertiary educational institutes
• A review of the Trader accounting package
• A review of Profax XS: Traditional small business software
• A review of the NEC Pinwriter P5XL
• A preview of the new IBM PS/2 range
• An article on computers in archaeology
• A list of modems available in New Zealand
• Some notes on structure when programming
• A book review of "Managing the Micro: a guide to control and security"
• An article on how to save money when replacing printer ribbons
• An article on the desirability of standards in Desktop Publishing
• A preview of the Computing '87 show
• An article on the evolution of computing languages
• An article on FORTH
• Columns for
  • Apple - Windows on the Apple II
  • Commodore - Adventure game writing (pt 2)
  • Amstrad - Menus, BASIC and CP/M
  • Sanyo - Exploring GW-BASIC (part 2)
  • Atari - Machine language vrs BASIC and a review of Typesetter for the 130XE
  • Spectravideo - SVI and MSX compatibility
  • MS-DOS - The PATH command
  • 6502 Machine language

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

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