Craig Stinson debuts as editor, noting that Softalk (for Apple) is now over 200 pages a month.
Columns: The Profit Plot (Shirley Fisher). Modeling for business decisions, using VisiCalc. System Notebook (Alan Boyd). Marketalk News. Marketalk Reviews. Newspeak. Beginners’ Corner (Craig Stinson). Boards and Buses (Richard Kaapke). Bestsellers.
Exec Software Arts: What’s After VisiCalc? TK!Solver sidebar. SA got a prerelease PC, secretive and secured, random inspections from IBM. Software Arts Technical Notes (begun “last fall”, I have vols 1-3 except v2n5).
Cover story: Banks and PCs (Al Tommervik). The Bug that Ate Boca Raton (PC BASIC rounding error) and coverage of DOS v1.05 solving various problems.
Avant-Garde p12 looking for programmers. InSoft p18 marketing Insoft Accountant. Didn’t know they had a PC arm. Datamost p18, marketing Write-On! for the PC. Also didn’t know this had a PC version. Synergistic Software p33 The Data Report. Yet another crossover I was unaware of. HowardSoft p36 teases financial software coming soon. TG Products p53.
Marketalk reviews: Adventure (Microsoft), Zork I (Infocom). Time Manager (company?), Arithmetic Games (Science Research Associates), Typing Tutor (company?), Tax Manager (Micro Lab/Taso).
Bestsellers. VisiCalc by a landslide. EasyWriter (Draper, IUS), Temple of Apshai (Automated Simulations), MS Adventure. Not split into categories. Lots of business software.
Periodical: Softalk for the IBM PC
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