Which Micro? and Software Review Issue 1

This issue was cover-dated May-June 1982 and cost 85p

News
News Headlines - 7½ pages (13-15,17,18-22,25)
 * Sanyo's Lumpy Box: Sanyo MBC 2000 and MBC 3000 - (13)


 * ICL Gets Personal: ICL Personal Computer - (13)


 * Child Labour: Accounting packages from Jarman Systems - (13)


 * Sinclair's Spectrum - (13)


 * Ink Canon: Bubble Jet printing - (13)


 * Frisco Show: 7th West Coast Computer Faire report - 1 page (14)


 * Bad Magic: Mathemagic from International Software Marketing - (15)


 * Cheap Prestel - (15)


 * MARS deals - (15)


 * Gemini's Galaxy 1 - (17)


 * Hewlett-P do the low end Business - (18)


 * Bureau Right Out of The Blue - (18)


 * Fighting Back: Nascom 3 from Lucas Logic - (19)
 * Apple Net - (19)
 * System 1 - (20)
 * Sharing Philips Logic - (20)
 * Art Work - (20)
 * Planning a Drunken Weekend?: Caxton Software's Optimiser - 2 pages (21-22)
 * Commodore tell all... - 1 page (25)

Features
Contents - 2 pages (4-5)

Problems - Hedley Voysey - 2 pages (10-11)

How to Buy a Micro - 2½ pages (27-29)


 * How often have you considered spending money on a computer and then given up in confusion?

Hardware Review: Commodore's High-Flying PETs - 3 pages (30-31,33)


 * Commodore are trying to make a 'toy' into a business tool. Maybe its the software that keeps them airborne.

Hardware Review: Sinclair: A Little Bit Touchy - 2 pages (34-35)


 * The ZX81 has already achieved sales of 250,000 in one year of life. We look at a 'rich' toy.

Hardware Review: Acorn's Atomic Fusion - 3 pages (37,39-40)


 * The Atom looks entirely innocuous in its grey fluted plastic housing, but beneath that flat facade power and versatility have been fused.

Hardware Review: Osborne 1 - 3 pages (42-45)


 * After years of telling others what to do flamboyant Adam Osborne releases 'soft-portability'

Hardware Review: Straight Lines From Vector Space - 3 pages (47-49)


 * We have been pleased with the Vectors and with the software which is better than some mini software.

Hardware Review: Auntie's Attractive Features - 3 pages (52-53,55)


 * Acorn Computers and the BBC have teamed up to produce one of the best micros around. Even at the new price it is good value.

Books: The Soul of a New Machine - 1 page (56)

Fantasy and Adventure: Part 1 - 3 pages (58-60)


 * Super Glooper, Halls of Death (Supersoft) - PET and Star Raiders (Atari) - Atari 400/800 featured.

Software Review: For Your Files Only? - 3 pages (61,63-64)


 * Building your own information or database system, whether for political intelligence, business or home fun, has real potential. We look at PFS for Apples.

Software Review: Office at Silicon Beach - 2 pages (66-67)


 * Just as some disbelievers were crying that micro databases were just castles built of sand the Bristol Software Factory proved them wrong.

American Report: Personal 'Blues' - 3 pages (71,73-75)


 * IBM may not have launched its new machine in the UK but Computerland has.

Hard Times or just Cheap Print - 3 pages (77-79,81)


 * Take a look at different print technologies

Buyer's Guide - 11 pages (83,85-88,90-91,93-96)

Dictionary - 1 page (98)

Adverts
Games Magazines
 * Holdco Ltd - The Naughty One, The Sign of Hadrin, Gold / Pick a Word, Golf, The Secret Codes, The Maze Game - page 24
 * Program Power - Space Fighter, Cowboy Shoot-Out, Warlords, Munchyman, Chess, Astrobirds, Invader Force, Lunar Lander, 3D Asteroids, Martians, Atom Adventure, Hyperfire - page 70
 * DK'Tronics - Deflex, 3D/3D Labyrinth, Centipede - page 92
 * Sinclair User - page 82

Other Credits
Design
 * Steve Chamberlain

Publisher
 * Simon Teager