_{Cover of the October 17th, 1989 issue of PC Magazine}

PC Magazine was one of the most popular and long lasting PC magazines, at least in the U.S. Ultimately, it suffered the death of most other computer magazines as they were essentially replaced with the Internet. The October 17th, 1989 issue includes:

Up Front

• Inside - An overview of the contents of this issue.


• Letters - Reader letters about Type Director, the NEC ProSpeed 286, form letter software, the history of the fax, Amax 386 computers, MCA vs. EISA, and more.


• Advisor - Questions answered about auto-rebooting from within a batch file, creating plots with an HP LaserJet, adding a floppy controller to have more than two floppy drives, and using COM ports beyond COM2.


• First Looks - Previews of new software, including HP's NewWave, Finesse desktop publishing software, the HP LaserJet IIP, PC Paintbrush IV, FastLynx, and What-If Analyst for Lotus 1-2-3.


• New and Improved - A look at new products, including an car power adapter and external battery charger for the Compaq SLT/286, Pacific Page (a cartridge to add full postscript capability to LaserJet printers), the Omnifax PPI (sends faxes to a laser printer), and more.


• Pipeline - Lotus and Symantec plan Deskmate versions of their products; AT&T plans online service to compete with CompuServe and Prodigy; Okidata and Hewlett-Packard plan slower, cost-reduced printers.


• Bill Machrone - Unix based 386 computers and LANs are starting to replace minicomputers and terminals.

_{Table of Contents from the October 17th, 1989 issue of PC Magazine}

Cover Story

• Presentation Graphics - A detailed look at presentation graphics software, including SlideWrite Plus, Graph Plus, Harvard Graphics, Kinetic Graphics System, Lotus Freelance Plus, Xerox Presents, and The Graphics Gallery Collection. Eventually, PowerPoint would come along and destroy them all.

Features

• Graphics - A detailed look at clip art software and libraries, including ArtRight Image Portfolios, Arts & Letter Graphics Editor, Bitfolio Computer Art & Symbols Library, Click & Clip 500, ClickArt Series, Clip3D Library, Corel Draw!, DeskTop Art, Freelance Maps, Harvard Graphics Accessories, Pages with Impact, Metro ImageBase, Micrografx ClipArt Libraries, PicturePak, Presentation Task Force, and ProArt Professional Art Library.


• Lightweight Laptops - A detailed comparison of laptops that at the time were considered Lightweight. Models looked at here include the Datavue Spark, Toshiba T1000, Bondwell B200, Sanyo MBC-16LT2, Epson Equity LT, Zenith MinisPort, Toshiba T1200, GRIDLite XL, Sharp PC-4602, Datavue Snap 1+1, Zenith SuperSport, GRID 140XT, NEC UltraLite, Sharp PC-4641, and NEC MultiSpeed HD. The Zenith SuperSport, for example, weighed in at over 13 pounds.

_{Table of Contents from the October 17th, 1989 issue of PC Magazine (continued)}

Productivity

• Lab Notes - The second part of a two part series on the communications capabilities of OS/2, including a terminal emulator example.


• Utilities - A look at a utility that can dim your VGA monitor and also provides a screen blanking screen saver.


• Environments - Part one of a series on mixing text at graphics. This part focuses on the OS/2 Programming Interface.


• Power Programming - The second part of a series on programming the 386. This part looks at converting existing programs to 32-bit protected mode.


• User-to-User - Creating temporary files with unique names in batch files; naming files using high-ASCII characters; using the BREAK command; and more.

After Hours

• Prodigy - Prodigy, an online service that is a joint venture between IBM and Sears, provides a graphical interface.


• LiveWire - A PC expansion card that extracts stock market crawl data from the Financial News Network via cable or satellite.

_{Back cover of the October 17th, 1989 issue of PC Magazine}

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